Re: Creative Commons Attribution license element

2004-06-12 Thread Evan Prodromou
NN == Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: NN Actually, I think most of clause 4b is fine; it's only one NN little bit of it which is troublesome. Thanks for your close attention. This is really helpful. 4b to the extent reasonably practicable, the Uniform Resource 4b

Re: Creative Commons Attribution license element

2004-06-12 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 02:15:37PM -0400, Evan Prodromou wrote: One thing that bothers me, though, is how this becomes 'barely free'. I realize that it may be *annoying* or *stupid*, but how is it *non-free*? I understand how *excessive* conditions on modifications may make something non-free,

Re: Creative Commons Attribution license element

2004-06-12 Thread Evan Prodromou
AS == Andrew Suffield [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Me One thing that bothers me, though, is how this becomes 'barely Me free'. AS Freedom is a binary test; a work is either free, or it is AS not. There is no partially free or semi-free. So barely AS free is free, but very close

Re: Creative Commons Attribution license element

2004-06-12 Thread Nathanael Nerode
posted mailed Evan Prodromou wrote: NN == Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: NN Actually, I think most of clause 4b is fine; it's only one NN little bit of it which is troublesome. Thanks for your close attention. This is really helpful. 4b to the extent

Re: Creative Commons Attribution license element

2004-06-12 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Evan Prodromou wrote: AS == Andrew Suffield [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Me One thing that bothers me, though, is how this becomes 'barely Me free'. AS Freedom is a binary test; a work is either free, or it is AS not. There is no partially free or semi-free. So barely

Re: Creative Commons Attribution license element

2004-06-10 Thread Nic Suzor
Evan Prodromou [Wed Jun 09, 2004 at 02:46:23PM -0400]: I can try to bring the subject up on the cc-licenses list again. I am involved with the adaptation of the CC licences in Australia, and have raised the issues with the drafting team. I have also pointed out the problems to our project

Re: Creative Commons Attribution license element

2004-06-09 Thread MJ Ray
On 2004-06-09 09:17:45 +0100 Evan Prodromou [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just don't think the second paragraph in the trademark box is binding in any way. After all, Creative Commons (quite wisely) states that it is not a party to the license. For what reason, then, should either of the parties

Re: Creative Commons Attribution license element

2004-06-09 Thread Evan Prodromou
NN == Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Me On the Creative Commons side, I'd wonder what opportunity there Me is to get Debian's very tardy comments and critiques applied to Me new versions of the CC licenses. NN Perhaps if they read their own mailing list?... That's a

Creative Commons Attribution license element

2004-06-08 Thread Evan Prodromou
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm writing because I've just been made aware of this summary of the Creative Commons Attribution 1.0 license: http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/04/msg00031.html Let me first note that Creative Commons uses a suite of licenses, with a

Re: Creative Commons Attribution license element

2004-06-08 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 12:06:25PM -0400, Evan Prodromou wrote: I'm writing because I've just been made aware of this summary of the Creative Commons Attribution 1.0 license: http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/04/msg00031.html Let me first note that Creative Commons uses a suite

Re: Creative Commons Attribution license element

2004-06-08 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 02:35:55PM -0400, Evan Prodromou wrote: AS We've done these to death already, starting in 2003. They're AS non-free. That won't change. Ah. Well, could you respond to my points as to why I think they _are_ free? I disagree with the terms of the summary. You

Re: Creative Commons Attribution license element

2004-06-08 Thread Evan Prodromou
AS == Andrew Suffield [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: AS Beyond that I'm not personally inclined to analyse a license AS which is clearly non-free for other reasons; it's AS time-consuming. No problem; I'm sure someone else will chime in. Thanks for your help so far. ~ESP -- Evan

Re: Creative Commons Attribution license element

2004-06-08 Thread MJ Ray
On 2004-06-08 17:06:25 +0100 Evan Prodromou [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Second, let me note how poorly timed the analysis is. Creative Commons revised their suite of licenses this year (from 1.0 to 2.0), and this list was asked to provide comment:

Re: Creative Commons Attribution license element

2004-06-08 Thread Evan Prodromou
MR == MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Me Second, let me note how poorly timed the analysis is. MR It may be poorly timed but at least a debian user helped to MR make it happen. Please praise Ben Francis and give him due MR credit for getting your attention with MR

Re: Creative Commons Attribution license element

2004-06-08 Thread MJ Ray
On 2004-06-08 17:06:25 +0100 Evan Prodromou [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: a number of mix-and-match license elements (Attribution, ShareAlike, NonCommercial, NoDerivatives). So any CC license that would require Attribution would also fall under this analysis. Do any SA/NC/ND licences not include

Re: Creative Commons Attribution license element

2004-06-08 Thread MJ Ray
On 2004-06-09 00:12:02 +0100 Evan Prodromou [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: MR == MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Please don't SuperCite outgoing email. It is difficult to follow. [...] I'm now subscribed to debian-legal and I'll try to keep the lines of communication open better. I don't think

Re: Creative Commons Attribution license element

2004-06-08 Thread Nathanael Nerode
posted mailed Evan Prodromou wrote: snip Making our organization's ideas known to Creative Commons could have meant a better suite of licenses for the 2.0 release. Instead, the opportunity was missed. As far as I know, the above-mentioned analysis wasn't forwarded to Creative Commons before

Re: Creative Commons Attribution license element

2004-06-08 Thread MJ Ray
On 2004-06-09 01:56:18 +0100 Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 3) As for the trademark clause, I agree that the trademark requirement is burdensome. This isn't supposed to be an actual part of the license, according to the source code for the web page; [...] I missed that. I'm not

Re: Creative Commons Attribution license element

2004-06-08 Thread Josh Triplett
MJ Ray wrote: On 2004-06-08 17:06:25 +0100 Evan Prodromou [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: a number of mix-and-match license elements (Attribution, ShareAlike, NonCommercial, NoDerivatives). So any CC license that would require Attribution would also fall under this analysis. Do any SA/NC/ND

Re: Creative Commons Attribution license element

2004-06-08 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Evan Prodroumou wrote: On the Creative Commons side, I'd wonder what opportunity there is to get Debian's very tardy comments and critiques applied to new versions of the CC licenses. Perhaps if they read their own mailing list?... The trademark issue appears to be an issue solely with the web