Development of Creative Commons licenses

[drew Roberts <zotz AT 100jamz.com>]

On Sunday 01 October 2006 06:00 pm, Nic Suzor wrote:
> On 10/1/06, drew Roberts <zotz AT 100jamz.com> wrote:
> > Oops, I know that, my bad. So, to answer, properly, no, am am not AS
> > passionate about maintaining the anti-DRM requirement in the BY license,
> > but I would like to see it there as well. Do what you like with the ND
> > and NC licenses.
>
> Using Greg's use cases, I don't believe that the attribution only
> licence should prohibit DRM. If ShareAlike-Sam creates content which
> he is happy for anyone to use, in practically any way, as long as they
> give him credit, I can't read in an extra restriction that says 'as
> long as you're not DRM-Dave (or microsoft, or whoever)'. The very
> permissive nature of this licence shouldn't discriminate on fields of
> use - from the free software perspective, people who use the
> revised-BSD style licences are more than happy for their code to be
> reused in proprietary, locked-up platforms.

Pretty much except for one key point. The license on a work does not allow 
changing the license on that very same work, only on derivatives. Applying 
DRM to a work could have the effect of changing the license for the same work 
on a particular platform.

Now besides that, my desires as to BY are admittedly those of self interest 
and not overall principle. While, when it comes to BY-SA which is my real 
area of concern, it goes deeper than just self interest.
>
> nic

all the best,

drew
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