[cc-community] CC Taiwan's trial on License Compatibility

Jedi Jedi at creativecommons.org.tw
Fri Dec 8 01:12:39 EST 2006


FYI:

There is a FAQ: I used part of a Creative Commons-licensed work, which
Creative Commons license can I relicense my work under? CC HQ provides a
matrix to show the compatibility of each CC license:

http://wiki.creativecommons.org/FAQ#I_used_part_of_a_Creative_Commons-licensed_work.2C_which_Creative_Commons_license_can_I_relicense_my_work_under.3F

However, we found it not so easy for everybody to understand this matrix
in our country. So that we've worked out a interactive-style matrix to
help people to get the whole idea. What we done is based on "(Open
Source) Licenses Wizard v3.0" - a product from our sister project, Open
Source Software Foundry. We call it "Creative Commons Licenses
Compatibility Wizard:"

http://creativecommons.org.tw/static/choose/license/licwiz

This wizard was first written in Traditional Chinese for our people.
Later we made an English translation one for all of you:

http://creativecommons.org.tw/static/choose/license/licwizeng

You can play with it, download its source code, modify it if you like,
and learn more about "(Open Source) Licenses Wizard v3.0" or "Open
Source Software Foundry" project from links above.

Please note that this stuff is still quite rough -- we know there are
much to improve:

  - radios should be checkboxs or buttons
  - uncheck should be better than reset
  - and so on.

Due to lack of manpower/time, we can't release next version in a short
time, but we hope this stuff can demo an idea about how to provide such
a complex information to regular people. And, hey, you can access its
source code directly, so feel free to send us your patch!

Best,
Jedi @ Creative Commons Taiwan




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