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>
Cc: "Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts" 
<cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 2:41 AM
Subject: Re: software licenses


> selussos wrote:
> > 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 
> > just
> > wait and link then if you think that would be clearer.
> 
> I don't see a link to CC there, but it wouldn't make much sense, as you 
> aren't actually using the license you propose to link to.

How do you mean?
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Well, that's what you get for creating your own license. :-)

Seems so.  I had no idea that that was going to cause such an uproar.

> 
> You could create a commons deed-like summary.  Whether that would help 
> depends upon the nature of the questions you're getting.

Okay, what's that?

Best Regards 
Sue