CC-BY-SA and moral rights provision

[Tom "spot" Callaway]

On 08/14/2009 01:05 PM, Richard Fontana wrote:
> Alternatively, however, we
> could continue with using CC-BY-SA 3.0 unported and revise the Publican
> licensing notice to say the following:
> 
>   Copyright © 2009 Red Hat, Inc. and others. 
> 
>   This document is licensed by Red Hat under a Creative Commons
>   Attribution–Share Alike 3.0 Unported license ("CC-BY-SA"). An
>   explanation of this license is available at
>   http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/. The original authors
>   of this document, and Red Hat, designate the Fedora Project as the
>   "Attribution Party" for purposes of CC-BY-SA. In accordance with
>   CC-BY-SA, if you distribute this document or an adaptation of it, you
>   must provide the URL for the original version.
> 
>   Red Hat, as the licensor of this document, waives and agrees not to
>   assert the right to enforce Section 4d of CC-BY-SA to the fullest
>   extent permitted by applicable law. 
> 
> 
> That extra language doesn't actually extinguish any moral rights claims
> that Fedora contributors might have, for better or worse; I think it
> just has the effect of making clear that the CC license won't be used
> by Red Hat as a separate mechanism to enforce such moral rights.

FWIW, I prefer this alternative to using the ported version.

~spot