[cc-licenses] Unbundling the GPL
Joachim Durchholz
jo at durchholz.org
Tue Apr 24 02:45:56 EDT 2007
Rob Myers schrieb:
> Joachim Durchholz wrote:
>
>> This being just an informed layman's point of view, I'm pretty sure
>> there's a lot of legal footwork involved to get this right, but it would
>> be very helpful. Just imagine that people wouldn't be forced to roll
>> their own licenses because the GPL agenda doesn't fit the constraints
>> under which they can make their software Open Source.
>
> The Open Source definition explicitly precludes NC and ND licenses. So
> it is not possible to call something Open Source that is licensed with
> those constraints.
Sure, we'd have CC licenses that don't fit the definition of "Free and
Open Source Software".
I'm not sure that this would be a Bad Thing. (Assuming that this is
clearly stated on cc.org's pages, of course.)
Would it?
Regards,
Jo
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