Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Rob Myers <robmyers AT mac.com>]

On Thursday, April 22, 2004, at 01:28PM, Jochen Bruening 
<jochen.bruening AT uni-konstanz.de> wrote:

>Rather than using the proprietary .gif format to express the CC idea (sic) I
>would prefer an open format like .png. Also a pure black and white coloring
>would relief some agonised web designers ;-)

The lzw patent has expired in most jurisdictions IIRC, and there's still very 
little reliable support for PNG. GIF is well-supported and well-understood, 
so IMHO it the best format for net graphics such as logos. JPEG is the best 
open format in terms of adoption, although I appreciate it's very different 
in aims and abilities from GIF/PNG.

I agree about the B&W version, vector versions for print work would be good, 
too. Or CC could release the vector sources and the community could make as 
many versions in as many different formats as they like and give them back 
through (say) a wiki.

- Rob.