Developer discussion for Creative Commons technology and tools

[Rob Myers <rob AT robmyers.org>]

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On 11/12/14 12:34 PM, j wrote:
> On 04/12/14 23:19, Matt Lee wrote:
>> The List is a new web app and Android app from Creative Commons.
> 
> I would have thought that Creative Commons would have learned its
> lesson about the issues related to model releases, when version 1.0
> of the CC license was released.

The List app emphasizes objects. However this is a useful question IMO.

> If it has, where is the data related to model releases? Especially
> since the apparent position of the organization has been that model
> releases are too complex, locale specific, industry specific, and 
> usage specific, to even contemplate a universal model release that
> is legally viable worldwide.
> 
>> We're developing it in the open, under a free software license.
> 
> Whilst GNU AFFERO GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE is ostensibly both an
> open license, and a free license, by selecting it, the implication
> is that this is something that will be useful only after the
> "secret sauce" is purchased.

The Affero GPL is indeed a free software license.

How do you mean "secret sauce"?

>> Read it here: 
>> https://github.com/creativecommons/list/blob/master/contributing.md
>
>> 
and please let us have your feedback either here or via GitHub Issues.
> 
> Creative Commons has copyright law as its area of expertise.  Most,
> if not all of the software it has developed, or sponsored, has
> been abandoned. Consequently, Creative Common lacks the street
> cred, as a software developer, to require contributor agreements up
> front.

I've enjoyed using several pieces of software from Creative Commons
over the years, not least their own web site. Their current plans for
software are exciting and sound in my opinion.

That said, one of the good things about Free Software is that should
development cease on a program you use, you can continue to use it and
to modify it to meet your needs should you wish to.

- - Rob.

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