[cc-licenses] Retiring standalone DevNations and one Sampling license
Michael Nottebrock
lofi at freebsd.org
Tue Jun 5 05:56:12 EDT 2007
Lawrence Lessig schrieb:
> Today we are retiring two of the Creative Commons licenses -- the
> stand alone Developing Nations license, as well as one of the three
> Sampling licenses we offer. The reasons for these retirements are
> both practical and principled.
>
> The practical reason is simple lack of interest: From the start,
> Creative Commons has promised to keep our family of licenses as
> simple as possible. Actual demand has been one of the key indicators
> of how simple things can be. We estimate just 0.01% of our existing
> licenses are Developing Nations licenses, and 0.01% are the version
> of the Sampling license that we are retiring. Those numbers say that
> these licenses are not in demand.
>
I seem to remember that Cameron Sinclair of Architecture for
Humanity/Open Architecture Network mentioned the Developing Nations
license in his TED talk in 2006 and DN seemed to make particular sense
to me in that particular context - but OTOH, I indeed don't see much DN
licensed content on OAN. What's their feedback on this?
Cheers,
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