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  • From: Andrew Rens <andrewrens AT gmail.com>
  • To: Development of Creative Commons licenses <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [cc-licenses] TPM: please explicitly allow parallel distribution
  • Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 18:47:38 -0400


On Aug 13, 2012 4:54 PM, "drew Roberts" <zotz AT 100jamz.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, 10 Aug 2012 14:25:59 -0400, Anthony <osm AT inbox.org> wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 12:49 PM, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell AT gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 8:57 AM, Anthony <osm AT inbox.org> wrote:
> >>> Yes, this is worth pointing out.  Through a quick look the restriction
> >>> appears to be "You may not restrict the ability of a recipient of the
> >>> Work from You to exercise the rights granted to that recipient by the
> >>> terms of this Public License, including through the imposition of any
> >>> effective technological measures."
> >>>
> >>> Still, I think the question of "can I distribute the work using
> >>> https??" applies.
> >>
> >> I'm not sure how we can have a productive conversation starting from
> >> this kind of basic misunderstanding.
> >>
> >> There is simply nothing in the text of the license which I can see
> >> would allow someone to draw the conclusion that distributing content
> >> in HTTPS would be problematic.  Please help me understand how you're
> >> coming up with that— and perhaps we can hammer out some little tweak
> >> that prevents that kind of misunderstanding that we can suggest.
> >
> > The quote is right there.  HTTPS is a technological measure.  I'm not
> > sure what "effective" means, so I don't know if HTTPS is "effective"
> > or not.
> >
> Party 1 send an unprotected file to party 2 via https or scp. It goes
> in one end unprotected and comes out the other end the same way. The
> protection is against third party snooping on the transfer, it does not
> make it so that party 2 has reduced abilities with respect to party 1
> because of the use of https or sc

Well said
>
> all the best,
>
> drew
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