On 5/1/06, Birgitte SB [email protected] wrote:
The works I see us dealing with here are religous works, goverment works, and manifestos of political groups etc.
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Repeat after me. ND licenses do not prevent misrepresentation. ND licenses do not prevent misrepresentation. ND licenses do not prevent misrepresentation.
If you are relaxing copyright holders fears of misrepresentation by suggesting ND licenses, you are lying to yourself and possibly to them.
It is acceptable in a free license (under any common definition) to require that works be correctly attributed and not fraudulently mislabeled.
If someone is going to edit the words of another in an effort to misrepresent the original speaker, they will still do so no matter what license the work is under.
Here you are just making another argument to reject ND licenses: they are often preferred by people with unrealistic expectations, and whom are thus likely to cause problems when those unrealistic expectations are shattered.