Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Daniel Carrera <dcarrera AT math.umd.edu>]

Branko Collin wrote:

> FSF: "The idea of invariant sections is that they give you a way to 
> express nontechnical personal opinions about the topic."
> 
> I guess it's a method of ensuring a "moral right" using the license. 

But it can be abused.


> I can understand why this would upset the Debian folks: not everybody 
> agrees that there is such a thing as moral rights, and others might 
> feel that moral rights are sufficiently protected outside copyright 
> law.

Btw, I do believe that there is such thing as moral rights. And I haven't 
actually said that the FDL is a non-free license. I remind you, I simply 
relayed Debian's opinion.


> The biggest problem I see with invariant sections (I am still 
> undecided about moral rights), is that they can be misused.

That's precisely the problem I see with them. Someone can say, "the 
invariant section is the ENTIRE document".


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