Re: [Cctools-cchost] registration email domain restrictions, download restrictions...

[Jon P. <jo...@cr...>]

On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 12:46 -0700, Mike Linksvayer wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 12:33 -0700, Victor Stone wrote:
> > um, well, I'm just relaying some pretty strong feelings from the folks
> > who sponsor this project about the reason it exists: to spread and
> > promote Creative Commons content which I can totally respect - it's
> > why we don't ship with an 'all rights reserved' or 'public domain'
> > license. If the purpose of ccHost has changed I can respect that too
> > but it means a fundamental shift in priorities.
> 
> Sorry for adding irrelevancy, but 'public domain' is fully supported by
> Creative Commons.  We have the PD dedication
> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/ and PD content can be
> incorporated into any CC licensed work.
> 
> PD probably should be included in ccHost as there's lots of PD content
> out there suitable for remixing and CC supports it.

Totally cchost supports this currently...its used by Open Clip Art
Library.

> ...
> 
> I haven't followed this discussion closely but it seems that restricting
> who can participate in a given community is orthogonal to licensing.  If
> someone wants to add a hack that restricts registrations to .edu
> addresses, fine, but I don't see any place for that in the mainline
> code.  As I think Victor said there's an events mechanism that would
> allow a site to cleanly add that hack locally.

totally...would just be good to document this on the wiki if anyone
undertakes this: http://wiki.creativecommons.org/cchost

Jon

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