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Re: [cc-licenses] NonDerivative NonCommercial Licenses

From: Terry Hancock <hancock AT anansispaceworks.com>
To: Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [cc-licenses] NonDerivative NonCommercial Licenses
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 20:28:24 -0600

Greg London wrote:

Well, by "proprietary fork" or "commercial fork"
I mean someone is able to get more rights to the
work than is available to the gift economy project.
Copyleft prevents anyone from changing the restrictions
on a project, which means you can't have Linux
start out GNU-GPL, and then have Microsoft come along,
create a derivative and license it "all rights reserved".

By analogy with "pirating", I like to call that "hijacking".

"FUD back 'atcha". ;-)

Cheers,
Terry

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  - Re: [cc-licenses] NonDerivative NonCommercial Licenses, drew Roberts, 03/29/2006
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      - Re: [cc-licenses] NonDerivative NonCommercial Licenses, drew Roberts, 03/30/2006
  - Re: [cc-licenses] NonDerivative NonCommercial Licenses, rob, 03/30/2006
    - Re: [cc-licenses] NonDerivative NonCommercial Licenses, drew Roberts, 03/30/2006
    - Re: [cc-licenses] NonDerivative NonCommercial Licenses, Terry Hancock, 03/30/2006
      - Re: [cc-licenses] NonDerivative NonCommercial Licenses, rob, 03/30/2006
    - Re: [cc-licenses] NonDerivative NonCommercial Licenses, Greg London, 03/31/2006
      - Re: [cc-licenses] NonDerivative NonCommercial Licenses, drew Roberts, 03/31/2006