[FM Discuss] "CC" license without "By" -- similar to public domain but has restriction.

[Douglas Bagnall]

Tim McNamara wrote:

> I disagree here.
> 
> Copyright holders can licence their creative works in any fashion they
> desire. If the only requirement for reuse is that the reuser also permits
> reuse, then I see no trouble with that in principle.
> 
> The original author can waive rights to explicit attribution. However, they
> would still hold moral rights over the work. These cannot be licenced away.
> Therefore, I don't know what the problem would be.

Well (trying not get all debian-legal about this) but once you have
taken away the licensor's copyright notice and license, how can anyone
know what distribution rights they have?

That is why attribution is the last thing that disappears from free
licenses as they get more and more permissive -- think of the MIT and
freeBSD licenses.



Douglas