Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Rob Myers <rob AT robmyers.org>]

On 11/01/12 22:52, Francesco Poli wrote:
> The big question is: does the clause allow a licensee to distribute a
> TPM-encumbered form of the work, as long as he/she also make a clean
> (unencumbered) form available in parallel? If this parallel

It does not and should not. DRM is unacceptable for software and it is
unacceptable for cultural works.

> distribution scenario is indeed allowed, then I've seen no one
> objecting to the freeness of the anti-TPM clause: everyone says that
> the clause meets the Debian Free Software Guidelines (DFSG). If instead
> the clause forbids parallel distribution, many people (including me)
> think it fails to meet the DFSG.

On what basis? The DFSG clearly need revising to remove the possibility
of this confusion.

- Rob.