[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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Netymon Pty Ltd
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