Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > What is the current status of the work going on to try to make some of > the Creative Commons licenses acceptable according to the Debian free > software guidelines? I know there were a workgroup being formed in > March, and I hope they are doing good work. > > I spoke with Lawrence Lessig yesterday, asking him for updates and if > he believed it would be possible to get the licenses acceptable by > Debian. He said he had not heard news on the topic for half a year, > and that he was waiting for feedback from Debian. He said that the > suggested changes had been accepted except two suggestions, which he > claimed did not have the effect intended. > > So, what is the experience on Debians part? Are we getting closer to > a solution? I don't know, but I wish I did.
If we knew which of the two suggestions "did not have the effect intended" (and why), we could come up with plenty of alternate suggestions. In addition, a few of our suggestions were of the "this is way too confusing to read" variety rather than the "this is non-free" variety, and if they didn't take those, that's just fine. -- ksig --random| -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
