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  • From: Anthony <osm AT inbox.org>
  • To: Development of Creative Commons licenses <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>, invernomuto AT paranoici.org
  • Subject: Re: [cc-licenses] 912 emails about DRM
  • Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 13:43:11 -0400

On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 1:40 PM, Anthony <osm AT inbox.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Francesco Poli
> <invernomuto AT paranoici.org> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Can you?  "You may not impose any effective technological measures on
> the Work that restrict the ability of a recipient of the Work from You
> to exercise the rights granted to that recipient under the terms of
> the License."
>
> Isn't compilation a technological measure that restricts the ability
> of a recipient to exercise the right to create derivatives?

And if not (or even if so), what about javascript source code
obfuscation (or similar procedures for other languages)?




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