Development of Creative Commons licenses

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

On Tuesday 05 December 2006 06:24 pm, Benj. Mako Hill wrote:
> <quote who="Terry Hancock" date="Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 03:11:00AM -0600">
>
> > If the platform owner does not provide such a key, then the work is
> > shut off from that platform, and the platform is worse for it, which
> > is politically good. (It may be insignificantly good, as you have
> > argued, but it is not bad).
>
> This political good, insignificant or not, is balanced by the fact
> that there is a cost in terms of limiting some users from taking
> advantage of *any* of the freedoms of the work.

Who are these users? I still don't have a clear picture of whether we are 
talking ten people worldwide, or one billion.

Users whose only platform is a DRM Dave blessed only and no clear content 
whatsoever platform.
>
> > This is simply a case of a "liberty or death" clause, no different
> > than section 7 of the GPLv2: if you can't distribute in a way that
> > preserves user freedoms, then you can't distribute at all. That's a
> > basic aspect of copyleft.
>
> A liberty or death clause says that the work must be distributed under
> the terms of the license or not at all. We all agree with that. That's
> why we are debating those terms right now. Just as the GPLv3
> committees are debating the DRM language in the GPLv3.
>
> Regards,
> Mako

all the best,

drew
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