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  • From: "selussos" <mgr AT x-oz.com>
  • To: "Mike Linksvayer" <ml AT creativecommons.org>
  • Cc: Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: software licenses
  • Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 22:35:00 -0500


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----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Linksvayer" <ml AT creativecommons.org>
To: "selussos" <mgr AT x-oz.com>; "Discussion on the Creative Commons license
drafts" <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 10:08 PM
Subject: Re: software licenses


> selussos wrote:
> > I was looking at the Sleepycat.com site and I see that I links to CC for
> > a human understandable version of their license, yet no where on CC do
> > you really say that you cover Software.
> > I would like to use the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/1.0/ to
> > explain our
> > license in plain English but should I or would that be misleading?
>
> I guess you must be looking at
> <http://www.sleepycat.com/download/licensinginfo.shtml>. Only the
> documentation is under a CC license. Unfortunately they have copied the
> deed rather than linked to <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/1.0/>.

Yes I noticed that.

>
> Creative Commons licenses aren't intended for software
> <http://creativecommons.org/faq#faq_entry_3646>, but in theory you could
> use one.
>
> Note that we're now offering CC packaging (human readable deed and
> machine readable metadata) for the GPL
> <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/GPL/2.0/> and LGPL
> <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/LGPL/2.1/>, and could do the same
> for other software licenses in the future.

I think it funny that you link to the GNU.org site instead of the alias
FSF.org for the Free Software Foundation link ;-) We use on our site
the FSF one.

Unfortunately we cannot do GPL but must offer something in the MIT/X/BSD
variation see: http://www.x-oz.com/licenses.html, which is why I thought
the link to http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/1.0/ would be good.
Will you be doing something like that in the near future? If so I could justw
wait and link then if you think that would be clearer.

As you can I am looking for _clarity_ since we've been getting so many
questions on our rather simple license. Thanks for your quick response.

Best Regards

SUe


> --
> Mike Linksvayer
> http://creativecommons.org/learn/aboutus/people#21
>





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