Re: Draft summary of Creative Commons 2.0 licenses (version 3)

[Henning Makholm <henning@makholm.net>]

Scripsit Evan Prodromou <evan@debian.org>

> 4. **Allow distribution of rights-restricted copies of works if
>    unrestricted copies are also made available.** The following
>    modified version of the anti-DRM clause in section 4a may be a
>    good starting point.
>
>       You may not distribute, publicly display, publicly perform, or
>       publicly digitally perform the Work with any technological
>       measures that control access or use of the Work in a manner
>       inconsistent with the terms of this License Agreement, *unless
>       you also simultaneously distribute, publicly display, publicly
>       perform, or publicly digitally perform the Work to the same
>       recipients without such measures.*

I'm not happy about this replacement either. It seems to say that if I
distribute the Work on a LAN behind a firewall I must also distribute
the Work once again to the same recipient, but this time on a
non-firewalled LAN.

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