Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Kat Walsh <kat AT creativecommons.org>]

As mentioned in the response to your previous post, we're about to
send out some requests for feedback on the few remaining open issues
this week, including a few related to attribution.

However, we've decided not to reopen this issue--the substance of this
clause will remain as it is in draft 3.

-Kat

On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 8:53 AM, Francesco Poli
<invernomuto AT paranoici.org> wrote:
> Hello for the third time,
> Section 3(a)(3) of CC-by-sa-v4.0draft3 states:
>
> [...]
>>      3. If requested by the Licensor, You must, to the extent
>>         reasonably practicable, remove any of the information
>>         required by Section 3(a)(1)(A-C).
> [...]
>
> where information in 3(a)(1)(A-C) is basically the names of the
> authors and of other parties to be attributed, copyright notices and
> disclaimers.
>
> An equivalent clause is included in the draft3 of CC-by-v4.0.
>
> I am still convinced that this clause does not meet the Debian Free
> Software Guidelines.  See my previous message [1] about this same issue
> in draft2.
>
> [1] https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/cc-licenses/2012-August/007118.html
>
> Since I don't think that a license can (allow a licensor to) forbid an
> accurate credit and meet the DFSG at the same time, I recommend that
> this clause be dropped entirely from CC-v4.0 licenses, or, at least,
> amended so that it says:
>
> |  3. If requested by the Licensor, You must, to the extent
> |     reasonably practicable, remove any inaccurate or
> |     misleading information required by Section 3(a)(1)(A-C).
>
> I hope this suggestion may be implemented in the next draft.

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