Development of Creative Commons licenses

["Lucas Gonze" <lucas.gonze AT gmail.com>]

On 4/1/07, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell AT gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/2/07, Lucas Gonze <lucas.gonze AT gmail.com> wrote:
> > The "Availability of source data" plank strikes me as a problem,
> > because it is burdensome.  Authors should be able to make a processed
> > version free without being required to include their sources.
>
> A work leaves the realm of the free if it can not be effectively
> extended or enhanced because someone along the chain of distribution
> reduced it to some some effectively obfuscated data losing form.

I understand why you're doing it.  I'm telling you that it won't work.
It requires way too much labor.

Anyway, the plank isn't even clearly drafted.  Do I have to make a
snapshot of my hard drive in case future creators need to figure out
how my OS supported the software that interpreted the source file?
How about my CPU, don't I have some obligation to make that available?

Not that I'm completely against what you're working on, just that I
think this part of if it is broken.

-Lucas