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  • 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] Debian and Creative Commons
  • Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 18:34:33 -0500

Clive Menzies wrote:
I want a Debian-compatible Creative Commons license.

That was one major goal of the 3.0 revision. I think it's important to a lot of people.

IMHO, we're already there on the CC side, and the remaining problem is with misinterpretation and politics on the Debian side. There are a few people who seem determined that anything CC comes up with isn't good enough, and there are others who don't seem to have had time to analyze the problem carefully enough.

But I think we have to remember that we're fighting for the ideal of a Free Commons, not for organizations like Creative Commons, the Free Software Foundation, or the Debian Project. If Debian jumps off a cliff, I don't want to see Creative Commons follow -- at least not without some pretty serious independent thought on the matter.

And CC is not alone. The FSF "anti-tivoization" stand is creating the same requirement that CC is asking for: both have taken a strong stand against TPM/DRM. I think Debian needs to follow suit at this point, rather than pursuing its current anti-copyleft stance.

It has to be realized of course that Debian has not had a referendum on this point -- CCPL3.0 (By, By-SA) may be accepted as-is, and I believe it should be, because all "use" restrictions have been lifted and there is no "discrimination against fields of endeavor" in the sense that is intended in the DFSG.

Cheers,
Terry

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Terry Hancock (hancock AT AnansiSpaceworks.com)
Anansi Spaceworks http://www.AnansiSpaceworks.com





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