[Foundation-l] Clarification to existing resolutions

[David Gerard]

On 16/05/07, Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> Only if the license establishes restrictions _beyond_ the existing
> moral rights. If it merely recognizes whichever rights a jurisdiction
> grants, I do not see an issue with it.


The text of the license appears to claim such rights outside said jurisdictions.


> I'm not convinced that the current CC licenses establish any new
> restrictions, and those who claim that they do should take that
> discussion directly to Creative Commons. There is no malicious intent
> here on the part of CC, and so I don't see why people don't try to
> work out any issues that there may be directly with the people who
> _wrote_ the license.


As lovely people as they may or may not be, CC's interests are not our
interests.


- d.