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

Lawrence Lessig lessig at pobox.com
Fri Dec 8 01:21:51 EST 2006


This is fantastically cool. Thank you. If you don't mind, we'll  
promote it to the main page?
On Dec 7, 2006, at 10:12 PM, Jedi wrote:

> 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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