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[Rob Myers <robmyers AT mac.com>]

On 13 Jul 2004, at 23:14, David Harris wrote:

> In short,. it might be nice to keep to the spirit of the US licence 
> and as
> others have said this should be done

Moreover this is the entire point of the iCommons project. If national 
differences will render the project untenable we should just use the 
original CC-2.0 as has happened with the GPL.

> There are however going to have to be
> some variations in national licences that breach the letter and spirit 
> of the
> US one because they have to in order to be legally valid.

Yes. Novel variations like the variable duration license term, and 
draconian additions like the auditing clause don't fit into this 
category, though. IMHO, IANAL, etc.

- Rob.