Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Mike Linksvayer <ml AT creativecommons.org>]

Evan Prodromou wrote:
> I have no idea why this hasn't happened yet, nor if it's going to
> happen. Being interested in Creative Commons in 2004 is a lot like
> being a Kremlin-watcher in 1979.

Ouch.  I was really hoping to engender 1930s-style hagiography, not 
1970s skepticism.  CC needs more propaganda and purges, not more 
openness! :-)

> * I, personally, think that this is probably bad advice on the part of
> Creative Commons, by the way. Despite Richard Stallman's
> protestations, there is not a hard-and-fast line between software and
> other forms of creativity, and the CC licenses should be able to deal
> with any digital artifact.

Whatever line exists is getting fuzzier as more stuff has embedded code, 
art included.  That's no excuse for purposefully avoiding one of the 
well-accepted software licenses for your news client (i.e., software 
application -- all software eventually can read usenet -- or is it mail, 
I can't find the quote).

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  Mike Linksvayer
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