[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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