Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Francesco Poli <invernomuto AT paranoici.org>]

On Wed, 18 Apr 2012 18:56:16 +0900 David Chart wrote:

[...]
> If you do not want to exclude these cases, you can't rely on "end up
> with versions you are not free to use" as an argument against
> permitting DRM distribution with parallel distribution, because you are
> permitting exactly that situation in other cases. Without even parallel
> distribution, in the case of the statue, and possibly in the case of
> the book.

Exactly, and I think the case of digital works is especially
illuminating, since there's no source availability requirement in
current CC-by-sa: as a consequence, one can distribute a
CC-by-sa-licensed digital work in a format that really hampers
modifications, without being compelled to make source code (== the
preferred form for making modifications) available in parallel.

Despite this, people continue to strongly oppose to any proposal that
would suggest allowing the parallel distribution scenario for DRM...

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