[cc-licenses] Color Coding Badges (Drawing)
Jonathon Blake
jonathon.blake at gmail.com
Fri Jun 9 14:31:15 EDT 2006
Terry wrote:
> Well, I prefer for there to be a distinction, because it matters to some people.
How about:
Violet: BSD Style licences
Indigo: GNU GPL style licences
Blue: Public Domain
Green: CC
Yellow CC-NC
Orange CC-ND
Red: All Rights Reserved
Black: Your rights removed. Use Red for lettering & glyphs.
[Infrared would be the more suitable colour, but most humans can not
see light in the infrared spectrum. Hence black. ]
> "Eye" -- this EULA requires you to give up privacy rights
+1
> "1" -- single CPU limitations and other things that prevent you from
I like the concept.
I'm not sure people will understand what the "1" represents.
Would the Chinese glyph for "1" work any better here? ㈠
[I couldn't find the correct glyph. This one depicts "Enclosed numeral one"".
On second thoughts, Westerners might view that as a fence, as such, it
would be "appropriate".]]
> "padlock" -- DRM'd material, 'no reverse-engineering' clause
+1
> "no mouth" -- restricts freedom of speech: you agree not to publish
This glyph needs more work.
The Chinese glyph doesn't work here. 嘴
> (all four are in somebody's EULA -- I'm sure there's half-dozen more that people have seen)
Offhand, I can think of several others, which make those seem
positively benign, and supportive of end-user-rights.
xan
jonathon
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Ethical conduct is a vice.
Corrupt conduct is a virtue.
Motto of Nacarima.
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