Development of Creative Commons licenses

["matt draghi" <mattdraghi AT hotmail.com>]

Thanks


> From: James Grimmelmann <james AT grimmelmann.net>
> Reply-To: Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts 
> <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
> To: Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts 
> <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
> Subject: Re: [cc-licenses] just share alike
> Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 21:18:49 -0400
>
> matt draghi wrote:
> > Does anyone know if there is a license for share alike, not requiring
> > attribution?
> >
> > 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. I am not even 
> sure I
> > want to force them to say what kind of license it has. I do however want 
> to
> > restrict people from restricting the copying or modifying of their 
> copies or
> > modified copies.
> >
> > 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.
>
> There was a plain ShareAlike license in version 1.0:
>
> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/sa/1.0/
>
> That said, I would just recommend using the 3.0 BY-SA, and stating
> explicitly that you don't require any attribution.  The attribution
> clause is written in such a way that if you don't ask for a credit, the
> licensee isn't required to provide one.  They will, however, still be
> required to retain the CC notice and to license any derivative works
> using the same license.
>
> James
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