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  • From: Glenn Otis Brown <glenn AT creativecommons.org>
  • To: Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: Call for more license options - Creative Commons Legal Code
  • Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 16:13:37 -0800

not sure if this has been answered yet, but the reasons for not extending the SA requirement to collective works are

(1) to avoid the kind of confusion that sometimes happens with the GPL regarding aggregation of "free" and "nonfree" works -- happens quite a bit --
early on we wanted to clarify between mere aggregations (no copyleft) and derivations (copyleft)

(2) to avoid profilerating license options -- we already get a lot of feedback that there are too many options as it is. the marginal gain from adding a broader SA requirement outweighs costs in UI, etc.

On Mar 28, 2005, at 1:28 PM, drew Roberts wrote:

On Monday 28 March 2005 04:11 pm, Greg London wrote:
drew Roberts said:
Do you know of any reason why SA
should not cover the same uses as NC?

not sure. my guess is that it came from
the way GNU copyleft licenses work.
They allow works to be aggregated
with non-copyleft works.

Sure, I know how the GPL works, probably better than how the CC stuff works.0

Some specific examples on the GNU website
say they want their software to be
distributable on a CD with non-GNU
licensed works.

The user can then do a local build on
their machine, combining the copyleft
stuff with the proprietary stuff.

If you can't aggregate, you'd have
to use separate CD's.

If it is just a matter of history, CC did not have an issue with NC even
though the GPL would. This would just be another of the spectrum of rights to
keep/give up. Right?

Does anyone know of any substantive reasons why SA should not cover the same
uses as NC?

all the best,

drew
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