I've made a new version of the Creative Commons license summary
available here:
http://people.debian.org/~evan/ccsummary.html
http://people.debian.org/~evan/ccsummary.txt
This version has the following changes since version 3:
* Changed "definition" to "criteria" per Francesco Poli.
* Changed "1 million works" to "many works", and note that
estimates range from tens of thousands to tens of millions.
* Tried to modify the language for explaining why the anti-DRM
clause and the trademark restrictions make it hard to call works
available under this license Free. This is in response to Mako's
critique, who should probably review.
* Gave a reference for a CC representative stating that the
trademark restrictions are not part of the license. This is one
mailing-list post from July 2004; I'd be interested in seeing
more.
* Modified the recommendation for the anti-DRM clause per Henning
Makholm. I used the language I posted, not Henri Sivonen's, in
that I thought the one I used was closer to the original
language of the license. This still doesn't address Henning's
concerns about making personal archive copies, but I think that
falls out of scope of "distribution".
I did not do any of these things:
* Drop any of the objections.
* Rank any of the objections, or mark any "optional" or
"non-normative" or something like that.
* Add any clarifying reference stating which technologies would be
acceptable and which unacceptable for the anti-DRM clause. I
haven't been able to find any such clarification on the Web. If
someone else can find such a clarification, I'd appreciate it.
Comments are welcome. Barring major objections, I would like to see this
version posted at http://www.debian.org/legal/licenses/ .
~Evan
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Evan Prodromou
evan@bad.dynu.ca
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