Development of Creative Commons licenses

["selussos" <mgr AT x-oz.com>]

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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 


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