Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Andres Guadamuz <anduril13 AT gmail.com>]

While I'm sympathetic about your concerns regarding formats, it would be 
very problematic to implement, as we would have to create definitions of 
what is considered a source file in a large variety of creative works.

Take for example text. If we declare .mobi and PDF formats undesirable, 
what would be considered source? Would a .doc be acceptable? If not, I 
envisage people getting annoyed at having formats imposed through 
licensing, and it might have the opposite effect, namely, that people 
would prefer not to share.

Best Regards,

Andres

On 06/04/2012 10:11, adam wrote:
> hi,
>
> With the new licenses is it possible to ask for the source to be
> provided in works that are licensed to allow derivatives? I know this
> issue mainly from the field of books. Now that open publishing (etc) is
> gaining enormous popularity I see more and more 'open books' made
> available in PDF only or mobi only formats etc.
>
> GPL requires source as a pre-condition for 3 of its 4 freedoms I believe
> and I think that is for good reason. Derivatives require source. Without
> source derivatives are not realistic possibilities and PDF or other
> releases are nothing more than a 'mechanical' form of copyright protection.
>
> I would actually like to see a source requirement in ND as well since it
> is impossible to transcode/transform into other formats sometimes
> without it. I am guessing that would be a less popular position however.
>
> I also understand source doesnt apply to all media equally. However a
> 'where applicable the source must be provided in a standardised and
> reusable format' would help matters a lot...
>
>
> adam
>
>
>
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