[Commons-l] CC by 3.0 not allowed on Commons?

[Jimmy Wales]

On Jul 14, 2007, at 12:01 PM, David Gerard wrote:
> I'm sure they suit CC's purposes - but CC, lovely as they are, are not
> Wikimedia and their purposes are not our purposes.

Actually, in this case, our purposes are 100% perfectly aligned.  The  
understanding that many people have about this is flawed.

The CC 3.0 Attribution license is fine.  I wish the passage in  
question were more clearly worded, sure.  But there has been  
absolutely no intention to have moral rights arbitrarily extended  
into new areas.

The basic concept is... there were concerns that failing to  
acknowledge moral rights in jurisdictions which have them could  
possibly invalidate the license.  So the intention is to have the  
license explicitly mention them and indicate that they exist, without  
adding anything new at all.

--Jimbo