Development of Creative Commons licenses

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

On Saturday 02 December 2006 05:05 pm, James Grimmelmann wrote:
> drew Roberts wrote:
> >> Giving freedoms to those would deny us the same is an important value of
> >> tolerant liberal democracy.  We strive to give everyone the same
> >> essential freedoms -- and we strive to intervene only when those would
> >> restrict those freedoms actually try to do so.
> >
> > But this is partly what I feel I am doing which is trying to do my small
> > part to  intervene where others are trying to create systems and a
> > society where those freedoms are restricted and even denied.
>
> That is a reasonable and respectable position.  You see the choice not
> to have a parallel distribution clause as a choice not to contribute
> some support for systems that would try to deprive others of important
> freedoms.  I agree that parallel distribution would contribute some
> support to those systems.  I think that the support is mostly indirect
> and is small compared with the freedoms it would enable in other ways.
> I think we both agree on kinds the effects that adding the clause would
> have.  We just disagree about what their likely scale will be and on how
> much moral weight we place on different effects.
>
> > I have looked very hard to find language that would compromise in ways
> > that I personally would rather not compromise in these discussions.
> >
> > What compromises can you live with?
>
> I can live with this one, at least.

Progress, I think I can too. Not that I prefer it, but neither do you.

What is weird is that I feel like I have been putting this possible 
compromise 
forward for a long time now but that it was not being responded to. (I have 
been out of it though with writing the NaNo novel.)

Who cannot live with it? And why?

Enlighten me.
>
> James

all the best,

drew
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(da idea man)
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