Re: Creative Commons CC0
"Ben Finney" <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au> wrote:
I'd hardly call that “the whole point” of the licenses; if anything,
it's a property of how they're used.
Fair enough
It's also a pretty poor practice: it makes access to that specific
document online a pre-condition to knowing the license terms in the
work at any given time, and it denies the possibility of the URL
leading to a different document (or to nothing) at some arbitrary
future time.
But "Cool URIs don't change" [0]. :-D
In reality you have a point. The hope is that there would be few enough CC
licenses that most people would know the basic terms well enough that they
never really need to look them up, but people do need internet access to
look them up the first time, as well as if they ever have a detailed
question that you require scrutenizing the "Legal Code".
Nonsense. Exactly the same approach could be taken with the Expat
license; this is not a distinguishing feature of the Creative Commons
licenses.
One could, except for the fact that the Expact License terms assume that the
license is included as part of the work itself, alongside the copyright
notice. It is somehat difficult to meat the condition "The above copyright
notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or
substantial portions of the Software." if you are just linking to
http://www.jclark.com/xml/copying.txt or annother online copy of the
license.
Of course, an MP3 is also software :-) and is equally valid as a work
for applying the Expat license.
Of course. The only issue is that dragging around the license text in an MP3
ID3 tag is a pain.
[0] http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI
IANAL, IANADD.
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