Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Ben Francis <lists AT hippygeek.co.uk>]

Evan Prodromou wrote:

> On Sun, 2005-13-03 at 12:00 +0200, Henri Sivonen wrote:
>
> > Was there any follow-up from the CC side? Are the BY and BY-SA licenses 
> > going to be fixed (assuming CC agrees there are bugs)? I searched the 
> > list archives but did not find anything definitive.
> >    
> Yes, Creative Commons followed up with me and other Debian project 
> members. We're going to try to go over the Debian issues with by and 
> by-sa.

That's fantastic news! Please do keep us up to date on progress.

Just to confirm. Are CC now making serious efforts to make the by and 
by-sa licenses DFSG-free? How will this happen if it proves agreeable, 
in a future version? Perhaps a version 2.1? How soon are these changes 
likely to happen?

I'm very keen to license works under a CC license in the future, but am 
reluctant to do so until the license gets the seal of approval from the 
people at Debian because I trust them with such matters. Releasing works 
under a license considered "broken" is (to me) polluting free culture. 
I'd like my creative works to have as many freedoms as the Free Software 
I use and to be distributable along with the software, with these 
freedoms intact.

Thanks very much for your work on this.

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