Development of Creative Commons licenses

["Greg London" <greglondon.1 AT gmail.com>]

On 4/25/07, matt draghi <mattdraghi AT hotmail.com> wrote:

> Does anyone know if there is a license for share alike, not requiring
> attribution?

 

You can use ShareAlike. And then simply not provide any attribution information.

see paragraph 4.c of this:

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode

 

I'm unclear how on exactly how you would provide your information

without making it a requirement. i.e. provide it but specify it is optional.

 

 

> I  have some artwork I want to license as such, and don't want people to be
> forced to say I made it if they copy or modify a copy.

 

If you don't provide info, they don't have to attribute it.

How you provide your info, but waive the attribution requirement, I'm not sure.

Just add your own disclaimer on your website, maybe.
 

> I am not even sure I want to force them to say what kind of license it has.

 

well, they would have to, or no one else would know its share alike

and know they can't add more restrictions to the work.

 

> I do however want to restrict people from restricting the copying or modifying of their copies or modified copies.

 

yep. that would be sharealike.

 

> I have been trying to find such a license and could not find one at creative
> commons. The closest one I found was a GPL kind, that was primarily written
> for software, but I think also could appy to anything considered a "work".
> That one still required stating the license though. Is there any problem
> with taking an existing license, removing the title and changing some of the
> words to make it more like what I want? Incase any of this sounds uninformed
> it is because I have just begun researching this.

 

You can modify a license, you just have to give it a different name.

You can't make displaying the license optional though, since downstream

users wouldn't know that the work is ShareAlike and can't have other

restrictions added.