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[Nicu Buculei]

On 10/15/2009 08:05 PM, Colby Hoke wrote:
> Pamela Chestek wrote:
>> Okay, we heard (thanks Rahul and Colby). Going forward, Red Hat videos
>> will provide contact information for permissions, so people who want
>> to use our videos in ways other than what the current CC licensing
>> allows will know who to ask. For now, if you're interested in doing
>> translations of Paul's stunning Stanislavskian performance
>> illustrating the development path of software (or using it in some
>> other way - the devil is whispering on my shoulder), write to
>> messer at redhat.com.
>
> Hey everybody, I'd love to hear some feedback on this and we'll make
> announcements through Paul for videos relating to Fedora where we're
> granting extra rights. (Or you'll be able to look at the end of the
> video and know.)

All the benefit of CC licenses over the traditional model was that the 
user does not need to ask the author for permission.
Having a restrictive CC license and asking to user to send emails to 
require a permissive one seems a bit like returning to step one. Why 
bother with NC-ND?

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