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Re: [cc-licenses] NC considered harmful? Prove it...

From: "Greg London" <email AT greglondon.com>
To: "Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts" <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [cc-licenses] NC considered harmful? Prove it...
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 19:56:13 -0400 (EDT)

> [ I am about ready to pony up the $1 000 it costs, to a
> have lawyer rewrite the CC-BY-NC-SA licence to specify
> that distribution has to be gratis, and it it may not
> be distributed in any manner that even hints at being
> a non-gratis transaction.]

Good grief. Why?

You could just as easily produce 99.8% of the same result
as that by licensing the work All Rights Reserved and not
enforcing copyright on the occaisional copy that someone
gives to their buddy.

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