Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Glenn Otis Brown <glenn AT creativecommons.org>]

> 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.

woops -- mistyped -- that's supposed to say "is outweighed by" rather 
than "outweighs" -- costs would be greater than potential benefits


> 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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> Glenn Otis Brown
> Executive Director
> Creative Commons
> glenn AT creativecommons.org
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