Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Francesco Poli <invernomuto AT paranoici.org>]

On Fri, 06 Apr 2012 12:31:38 +0100 Rob Myers wrote:

> On 04/06/2012 03:17 AM, Andrew Rens wrote:
> >
> > You can regard me as one of those who are sceptical whether the Debian
> > Free Software Guidelines should dictate licences used for many things
> > that are not software such as free education resources. Why shouldn't
> > the Creative Commons community decide such issues of principle rather
> > than have them decided by for Creative Commons by the Debian community?
> 
> Debian do analyze licenses thoroughly and their concerns are worth 
> listening to.

I agree, but please note that I am not speaking on behalf of the Debian
Project.
I am indeed a Debian contributor and debian-legal regular, but here I
only speak for myself and the opinions I express are my own.

> But the same requirements were accepted as DFSG-free when 
> Debian legal approved the 3.0 free licenses.

Well, it's a bit more complicated than this.
In summary, the Debian Project decision-makers currently accept works
licensed under the terms of CC-by-v3.0 and CC-by-sa-v3.0 as Free works,
but I disagree with them.


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