On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 04:01:36PM -0500, Daniel Carrera wrote: > I just had a thought, regarding the CC-BY license. It looks like the > license is "essentially free", except that there are some vague points > that would allow it to be misused. > > Can this be fixed by just adding a "clarification letter"? What I mean is, > I publish something using the CC-BY license, and I attach a letter to > clarify how I read the license. > > The letter could just clarify that (1) the author names don't have to > be prominent, (2) the license does not interfere with fair-use rights > (e.g. quoting you on a bibliography) and (3) CC is not a party to the > license. Yes, we often do things like this when upstream has gotten attached to one of the crappier licenses. The Artistic license (as in perl) is one of the classical examples. The problem is that you then have to extract something like this for every package, so it's a problem that never goes away. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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