Recently, I’ve become involved in the ongoing discussion between the Creative Commons and Debian over the “freeness” of the Creative Commons Public License (CCPL), version 3. Specifically, the hope is that Debian will declare the CC-By and CC-By-SA licenses “free”, as most people intuitively feel they are. There are a number of minor issues that I think both sides have now agreed to, leaving only the question of “Technological Protection Measures” (TPM, also known as “Digital Rights Management” or “Digital Restrictions Management” or “DRM”).