Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Rob Myers <robmyers AT mac.com>]

On 16 Aug 2004, at 20:36, evan AT wikitravel.org wrote:

> But I think Attribution compares _extremely_ favorably to, say, Front 
> Cover
> and Back Cover Text requirements in the GFDL.

Thank you for the comparison table and the reference. I do agree that 
Attribution is inoffensive compared to BSD1 or GFDL. I do however still 
maintain that in some small way it is a limit on "Freedom". For example 
a large-scale Wiki site that used Attribution and then went for a print 
edition would have several pages of credits. Is this a problem? Not as 
much as endless advertisements. More so than nothing.

One thing with Attribution for content as opposed to software is that 
with software under the GPL you have to redistribute the source 
material. This means you can easily find the sources, use more of the 
source material and/or alter the source material. There's no such 
requirement for content under CC*, and I do think this is a problem 
with CC compared to GPL. Attribution redresses this in a way by 
allowing you to find the source material for derived works at least, 
and so may serve a useful purpose for consumers as well as producers.

- Rob.

* - By source material I mean, well, source material: the score, the 
script, all the takes, the graphical units, the samples and loops and 
MIDI files, the character descriptions, the model sheets, the geometry 
files, the layered image, whatever.