Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Rob Myers <robmyers AT mac.com>]

On Tuesday, June 08, 2004, at 04:46PM, Ben Francis <lists AT hippygeek.co.uk> 
wrote:

>If CC are making a concious decision NOT to make the licenses DFSG-free 
>and have a good reason for doing so, 

(I am not a CC person)

The CC licenses are not designed for software or (specifically for) software 
documentation. DFSG is not designed for music, video or literature. I think 
that possibly DFSG and CC are catering to different communities.

A quick look at the DFSG shows that they don't have the same definition of 
"Free" as the FSF, which doesn't consider the original BSD or Artistic 
licenses "Free". If I were to choose between the two, I'd go for the FSF's 
definition. Which still wouldn't make CC-BY Free. :-)

>http://mjr.towers.org.uk/blog/2004-5.html#cc20-example AT 2004-5.mjr.dsl.pipex.com

Yep, BY being automatic and its removal becoming optional/deferred are not 
IMVVHO a good idea. Particularly when it looks like users may have 
misunderstood BY/not BY so badly.

- Rob.