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  • From: drew Roberts <zotz AT 100jamz.com>
  • To: Development of Creative Commons licenses <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [cc-licenses] Attribution: accurate credit should not be forbidden
  • Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2012 09:53:40 -0500

On Friday 13 January 2012 18:18:25 Francesco Poli wrote:
> Many licenses require that *accurate* credits be kept. This seems to
> be fine and acceptable (that is to say it's DFSG-free). On the other
> hand, if a license required *inaccurate* credit, I think it would be
> considered non-free. If this is the case, how can forbidding
> *accurate* credit be considered acceptable?

Why can't we look at it like this:

"This work based on a work licensed BY-SA (or whatever) by a person who has
requested his/her name not be mentioned in connection with this adaptation."

Would that fulfill the requirements of accurate credits and the license?

all the best,

drew




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