[cc-licenses] Simplifying Licenses

⸘Ŭalabio‽ Walabio at MacOSX.Com
Sun Mar 1 22:12:04 EST 2009


	¡Hello!

	¿How fare you?

	It is great that we have these modular licenses, but the lawyers have  
gone to far in creating a module for everyone.  The idea of the  
licenses is to increase freedom.  One can argue that NC is a necessary  
evil:

	Let us suppose that one runs a wiki about a TV-show and does not want  
to get sued by the suehappy lawyers of the corporation who created the  
franchise.  One can point out that the wiki is licensed CC-BY-NC-SA.   
Hopefully that will deter the lawyers.

	ND has no justification.  We should eliminated ND.  Indeed we can  
reduce the number of licenses to just 3:

	*	-	CC-BY
	*	-	CC-BY-SA
	*	-	CC-BY-NC-SA

	CC-BY cuts with everything.  It is the perfect license for material  
whose purpose to be incorporated in other works.

	CC-BY-SA is the GoldStandard of licenses.  In a perfect world,  
everything would be CC-BY-SA

	CC-BY-NC-SA is the necessary evil.  We should discourage it but allow  
it.

	We should deprecate all  other licenses.

	¿Any comments?

	¡Peace!

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