Development of Creative Commons licenses

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

drew Roberts wrote:

> > I don't think so. Debian legal doesn't have a problem with attribution.
> > And the copyright notice provides attribution *anyways*.
> 
> Does the copyright notice provide attribution in the CC sense of say BY-SA?

It can :-)

   This document is Copyright 2005 by the contributors as listed in the 
   Authors section...


But in any event. Even if it couldn't, the main point is that Debian does 
not have a problem with attribution as such. It's about how it's worded in 
the license, giving people the right to demand that you remove "any"
reference from them in a derivative work. If you think about it, the word 
"any" is too extreme, in a way that the CC most likely didn't intend. It 
would allow someone to make me remove things like "my book is better than 
Jason's". "Obviously" the CC was thinking of authorship references (like 
"this article was written in colaboration with Jason"). If the CC license 
made that clear, that'd be ok.

Cheers,
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