Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Daniel Carrera <daniel.carrera AT zmsl.com>]

Richard Hopkins wrote:
> So we would want to include in our creative commons license the
> requirement that anyone re-using our stuff should tell us about it.
> I imagine that there are plenty of other people who would like to know
> of re-use of their material.
> So I suggest this a a fifht option for restrictions

No, that is a highly non-free restriction, and an undue burden. What if 
I get a work from a third party and I don't have a means of contacting 
you? Am I not allowed to use the work because your mail server went 
down? Or because I don't have internet access.

This restriction would likely cause a lot of harm, and the motivation of 
getting more grant funding does not justify the harm to the public.

Cheers,
Daniel.
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