Development of Creative Commons licenses

[drew Roberts <zotz AT 100jamz.com>]

On Saturday 16 February 2013 11:53:45 Francesco Poli 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,

Perhaps it would be good enough to just restrict where the credit can be 
given? For instance, perhaps you can deny the giving of the credit as a part 
of the work itself but allow it in an accompanying file or something like 
that?
>
> 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.

all the best,

drew