[freeroleplay] Does CC-SA require a modifiable copy?
- From: Ricardo Gladwell <president@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: cc-licenses@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 15:12:33 +0000
To Whom It May Concern,
I'm writing on behalf of the Free Roleplaying Community, an organisation
dedicated to free content advocacy in the pen-and-paper roleplaying
industry. We're currently reviewing the CCPL to acertain whether it is
"free" as we define it:
http://www.freeroleplay.org/faq.php#FreeContent
The BA-SA CCPL allows a user "to create and reproduce Derivative Works".
I also note in section 4 ("Restrictions") the following requirement is made:
"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."
I'm interested in what types of "technological measures" this covers.
For example, would it be illegal to distribute the work in a proprietary
format that would, for example, require expensive software to edit? Does
the CCPL itself in anyway require a modifiable version be made
available, similar to the source code clause in the GPL?
Kind regards...
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Ricardo Gladwell
President, Free Roleplaying Community
http://www.freeroleplay.org/
president@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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