This is an interesting thread, and it feels like I'm almost 
understanding a tiny bit more of legal copyright theory - thanks for the 
discussions with specific citations and detailed interpretations (even 
if some seem to differ!).

Personally I find it extraordinarily unlikely that the ASF will add 
current CC-* licenses to category A, so my recommendation is to not 
worry about this too much.  The primary reasons (for me, at least) is 
precisely to ensure that the AL remains - and is seen to remain - as 
commercially friendly.

- Shane

On 12/4/13 1:56 AM, Luis Villa wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 9:38 AM, Lawrence Rosen <lrosen@rosenlaw.com> wrote:
>> I wish we listed CC-BY as an acceptable license for inclusion in Apache
>> works.
>
> As I believe I've noted here before, CC (4.0 and earlier) has an
> anti-DRM provision that makes it a poor fit for the embedded/mobile
> space - a common use case for Apache projects these days. So I'm not
> sure it belongs in "category A". That said, if the decision has
> already been made to overlook that clause (which apparently it has
> been for 2.5 and 3.0) there is nothing else in 4.0 that would be
> problematic.
>
> Luis
>
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