Development of Creative Commons licenses

[evan AT bad.dynu.ca (Evan Prodromou)]

On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 04:13:44PM -0400, drew Roberts wrote:

> "2. **Waive attribution after request to remove references**.
>
> In a country with "moral rights" this would not be possible and
> would in fact be an illegal clause.

If a request to remove attribution can effectively take away the
licensee's right to distribute the work, then the work isn't free.

> If a digital version is being distributed under DRM protection, would it be 
> good enough if a a blanket license was given to break the drm in this case? 
> Would it be good enough to provide a link to the same version in non-DRM 
> format? (Or provide such a version on request ala the GPL source offer.)

Good enough for whom? CC, or Debian?

According to the current version of the license, neither case is good
enough for the CC license; that situation isn't good enough for
Debian. B-) The rough consensus at Debian is that works available
solely under a license aren't Free Software unless the license allows
distribution in any format, or, at least, parallel distribution in
more than one format.

Anyways, thanks for your attention and your comments.

~Evan