The result of the discussion was Issue is now moot. One chooses one's battles. DS ( talk) 19:14, 8 September 2014 (UTC)
User:DragonflySixtyseven/Casey at the Wyrm needs to be deleted because "Distribute freely, but give credit where credit is due!" is NOT functionally equivalent to CC-BY.
Functionally, CC-BY explicitly allows for re-distribution, remixing and usage commercially. "Distribute freely, but give credit where credit is due!" only explicitly allows for one of the three.
Having the page on Wikipedia is functionally equivalent to a copyright violations and needs to be deleted. 197.245.47.92 ( talk) 04:07, 8 September 2014 (UTC) (copied from request on MfD talk page [without intending any implied !vote] by —PC -XT + 15:37, 8 September 2014 (UTC))
CASEY AT THE WYRM Copyright 1991, 1992 by Ben Sansing (aka Beineon O'Herne) Distribute freely, but give credit where credit is due!. I'm afraid that I have to agree with the nom: "Distribute freely" could be interpreted to either include or exclude commercial distribution (depending on if the word "free" is used as in "speech" or as in "beer"), but I can't find any way that the phrase "distribute freely" could be interpreted to mean "distribute and modify freely", which is something that CC-BY would require. It's possible that the original author didn't intend to restrict modification this way, but we can't work with that; we have to work with what he said (or in this case, did not say), and he did not say that free modification was permissible. Thus, this isn't equivalent to CC-BY; the closest we can get from his words is "CC-BY-ND", which is still too restrictive for Wikipedia. I'm afraid we have to delete this. Writ Keeper ⚇ ♔ 18:01, 8 September 2014 (UTC)
The result of the discussion was Issue is now moot. One chooses one's battles. DS ( talk) 19:14, 8 September 2014 (UTC)
User:DragonflySixtyseven/Casey at the Wyrm needs to be deleted because "Distribute freely, but give credit where credit is due!" is NOT functionally equivalent to CC-BY.
Functionally, CC-BY explicitly allows for re-distribution, remixing and usage commercially. "Distribute freely, but give credit where credit is due!" only explicitly allows for one of the three.
Having the page on Wikipedia is functionally equivalent to a copyright violations and needs to be deleted. 197.245.47.92 ( talk) 04:07, 8 September 2014 (UTC) (copied from request on MfD talk page [without intending any implied !vote] by —PC -XT + 15:37, 8 September 2014 (UTC))
CASEY AT THE WYRM Copyright 1991, 1992 by Ben Sansing (aka Beineon O'Herne) Distribute freely, but give credit where credit is due!. I'm afraid that I have to agree with the nom: "Distribute freely" could be interpreted to either include or exclude commercial distribution (depending on if the word "free" is used as in "speech" or as in "beer"), but I can't find any way that the phrase "distribute freely" could be interpreted to mean "distribute and modify freely", which is something that CC-BY would require. It's possible that the original author didn't intend to restrict modification this way, but we can't work with that; we have to work with what he said (or in this case, did not say), and he did not say that free modification was permissible. Thus, this isn't equivalent to CC-BY; the closest we can get from his words is "CC-BY-ND", which is still too restrictive for Wikipedia. I'm afraid we have to delete this. Writ Keeper ⚇ ♔ 18:01, 8 September 2014 (UTC)