禁止改作？換個格式算不算？

CC 的 VP: Mike Linksvayer 剛剛以身作則，「示範」把含有「禁止改作」條件之作品轉變為其他格式檔案，用的正是今天在網路界引起風暴的 Google Chrome 漫畫書。他將這本漫畫編為 PDF 檔案，方便大家下載收藏，並在 Blog 上寫道：

This is one rare case in which I find reading a PDF easier than web pages (page down has lower latency and requires less movement than clicking ‘next page’) so using sam2p and pdftk I made a PDF version of the comic book.

Note that although Creative Commons licenses containing the ‘No Derivatives’ term do not allow altering the license work, they do allow moving the otherwise unaltered work to a new format. (Ideally Google would have released the work under a more permissive license, but we’ll take what we can get.) Lenssen’s scanning and my PDFing are examples of such format shifting.

簡譯：這是少數我覺得用 PDF 比用網頁更容易閱讀的例子，所以就做了個 PDF 版。雖然這份作品採用的創用 CC 授權方式中帶有「禁止改作」條件，但這條件其實亦允許將沒有更動過的作品轉換為其他格式。Lenssen 把拿到的漫畫書掃描上網、我把掃描的東西拿來做 PDF 都是這樣的例子。

剛好可以拿來當個範例。