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How to Credit: Rephrase publicity requirement #6

Closed kemitchell closed 5 years ago

kemitchell commented 5 years ago

This PR attempts to make the requirement that credits be freely shareable, publishable, and usable easier to read and understand.

kemitchell commented 5 years ago

Blacklist-whitelist is a great way to think about this. The reason to attempt the change was clarity. You mentioned that the “whitelist” formulation kind of sounded like a license. I was hoping this blacklist sounded less legal and more practical.

kemitchell commented 5 years ago

I added the bit about any member of the audience to try to head off edge cases where the license might argue part-versus-whole ambiguity. I’m not sure that’s worthwhile. There may be a plainer way to say it.

ioistired commented 5 years ago

I was hoping this blacklist sounded less legal and more practical.

It feels like the opposite change to me. Particularly "you must not prevent". "They must be free to do x, y, and z" feels more natural to me.

kemitchell commented 5 years ago

@bmintz, tried again:

You must not do anything to stop the audience for your work from sharing, publishing, or using credits.