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by remkop22 1065 days ago
Lovely.

> This page is copyright 2005 by Graeme Cole. What are you allowed to do with it? Pfft. Anything within the realms of common sense, really. I don't want to prescribe rigidly what people can and can't do with it, so I've decided on a benchmark. It's this: you're allowed to do with this page anything you wouldn't mind me doing with your cat. So yes, you can photoshop it for comedy effect, you can copy bits of it for illustrative purposes and so on, but you can't steal it and pass it off as your own.

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I was going to say the man invented CC-BY before there was CC-BY, but apparently, the first CC licenses came out in 2002.
Pretty sure the value of the CC licenses isn't that they invented any particular set of restrictions and freedoms, but that they applied enough lawyer energy so that the wording of those sets would be compatible with law systems.
As opposed to 'crayon' licenses that make up their own terms and cause legal uncertainty
CATPL license.