[cc-au] It's all about google!

Andrae Muys andrae at netymon.com
Thu Sep 4 21:01:52 EDT 2008


On 04/09/2008, at 3:45 PM, elliott bledsoe wrote:

> hello all. it would seem that all the exciting new from creative  
> commons at the moment is coming out of google.
>
> not that long ago google code (http://code.google.com) introduce cc  
> licensing, allowing hosted projects to release their code under the  
> attribution and the attribution-share alike licences. find out more  
> here: http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/2008/07/introducing- 
> content-licenses-on-google.html

As a professional software developer I thought I might clarify two  
points.  First, the Creative Commons licences shouldn't be used for  
software. The FOSS community has spent the past 20 years on issues of  
derivative works, patent law, and distribution. If you want to  
release open software, you would be extremely foolish to ignore this  
work. I would strongly recommend you use whichever of the MIT/BSD,  
Apache2.0, or (L)GPL licences best suit your purposes. Second, google  
isn't "allowing hosted projects to release their code under [CC- 
licences]," for the reasons I allude to above, they still insist on  
mainstream open-source licences. If you read the press release you  
will see that what google has done is permit the separate licensing  
of 'content' (music, images, icons, stories, characters, etc) within  
their hosted projects under CC-BY and CC-BY-SA licences, roughly  
corresponding to MIT/BSD/Apache2.0 and (L)GPL respectively.

Andrae Muys

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