Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Kat Walsh <kat AT creativecommons.org>]

I let this through as it was a response to the previous message, but
future posts on this aspect of attribution should go to the
cc-community list, as we have decided not to change it in 4.0.

-Kat

On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 2:24 PM, drew Roberts <zotz AT 100jamz.com> wrote:
> 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
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