Developer discussion for Creative Commons technology and tools

[Jon Phillips <jon AT rejon.org>]

On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 00:10 -0500, Luis Villa wrote:
> On 1/24/07, Jon Phillips <jon AT rejon.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 17:35 -0800, Mike Linksvayer wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 17:04 -0500, Jesse Warden wrote:
> > > > I don't know Chris personally, but as much as I can tell from emails,
> > > > he doesn't believe it is an effective license for software
> > > > development, feels that the document & UI elements that CC can also be
> > > > applied to are not something Google Code currently focuses on, and
> > > > bottom line feels that it runs contrary to keep the amount of licenses
> > > > low.
> > >
> > > http://wiki.creativecommons.org/FAQ#Can_I_use_a_Creative_Commons_license_for_software.3F
> >
> > Yes, CC licenses are not for software. CC recommends using GNU GPL and
> > LGPL for source code. Hence, Google Code is right on point with not
> > using CC licenses in this way.
> 
> That said, there are projects that will use Google Code that should
> appropriately be 'license X for code, license Y for art/docs/etc.' It
> might not be unreasonable to discuss mixed-license scenarios with the
> Google Code folks at some point, and let them know that that is a
> scenario they should consider for the future. (Esp. if more licenses
> become more cross-compatible in the future as we expect with GPL v3
> and other new licenses.)
> 
> Luis

Yes, this is true...Would you both like to help hash out a plan for
this? It would be good to dream up how to support this :) Oh know, a
universe of per-document licenses :)

Jon

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