Development of Creative Commons licenses

["Per I. Mathisen" <per AT leftist.net>]

On Mon, 10 May 2004, Greg London wrote:
> J.B. Nicholson-Owens said:
> > And yet Disney refuses to contribute their work to the PD from which they
> > continue to draw so much value.
>
> It's that sort of naive pseudo-argument that gives
> Free/Libre/Open/Public groups the image of being
> some sort of fringe-element community-property
> bunch of loons.

Desperately looking for a reason to rant? You deliberately misquote the
previous poster to make him your strawman which you then tear down with
rather harsh language.

What he actually said was...

> And yet Disney (and probably every other MPAA and RIAA client, if Disney
> weren't the corporation to be so vocal about supporting the latest
> copyright term extension) refuses to contribute their work to the PD
> from which they continue to draw so much value.

...which suggests that it is about the refusing to contribute to PD by
passing copyright term extensions, not what you made it out to be by
misquoting. I think you owe him an apology.

  - Per