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

[Tim McNamara]

2009/10/16 Douglas Bagnall <douglas at paradise.net.nz>

> 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?
>
>
Simple. The copyright notice would be something like:

Copyright 2009 Author Name

Permission is granted to use this creative work in any manner, subject to
the condition that further works are licenced under the same terms.
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