CC:BY ... lost in translation?

On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 15:58 +0100, Peter Brink wrote:

> It's the legal code that constitutes the contract
(licence, deal or 
> whatever you want to call it), not the deed. If there's
is a direct 
> difference btw the deed and the code, the code takes
precedence. If 
> there's an ambiguity in the code then the deed can be
used to support 
> interpretations if the code.
> 
> So, if you are uncertain about how to deal with
attribution you have to 
> turn to the legal code for guidance.

Yes, but the deed is sufficiently different from the code
that the deed
should be fixed.  The deed misleads what people can expect
in terms of
attribution, leading people to write license codes that
overreach what
attribution should entail.  There are so-called attribution
licenses
being presented in the open source community that some
people feel
overreach, but not by the standard of the CC:BY deed.

M


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