Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Rob Myers <robmyers AT mac.com>]

On Friday, September 10, 2004, at 03:21PM, Greg London <email AT greglondon.com> 
wrote:

>
>Casey REAS / UCLA said:
>> As far as I can tell, the human readable versions of the CC GNU GPL and
>> CC GNU LGPL are identical. I think there is already confusion about the
>> differences between these two licenses and clarifying within the human
>> readable commons deed would help people to differentiate.
>>
>> As a novice in copyright issues, it took me at least 20 minutes of reading
>> the FSF site to simply differentiate between the two, the LGPL allows
>> the software to be used in proprietary software, while this is prohibited
>> with the GPL.
>
>FSF discourages the use of LGPL and encourages the use of GPL, specifically
>because LGPL allows the software to be rolled into a private derivative
>and GPL does not. So, I wouldn't call that "identical".

But the poster has a point regarding the human readable versions of CC's GPL 
and LGPL descriptions. They are -erm- identical apart from the word "lesser", 
and do not mention the modular/atomic nature of the LGPL, which is an 
important difference as you point out.

- Rob.