Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Rob Myers <robmyers AT mac.com>]

On 16 Aug 2004, at 20:52, evan AT wikitravel.org wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 08:46:00PM +0100, Rob Myers wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> I'd really like to see a source-code license element in future 
> versions of
> the CC suite.

Wellllll. I'd like to see a GPL-compatible CC license. I'd be very, 
very wary of releasing Yet Another Software License, even one done as 
well as the CC content licenses. There's too many Open Source licenses 
already, and content ain't code (tm).* Possibly identifying GPL and 
BSD-compatible CC licenses would be a better non-duplication-of-effort.

Out of genuine interest, which projects do you have in mind for code 
and content under CC, or is it a more general requirement for (say) 
Debian? What would the advantages be?

Thanks.

- Rob.

* - In theory you can release content under the GPL if you can identify 
the "source code", and the GPL is a very finely-tuned software license.