Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Rob Myers <robmyers AT mac.com>]

On 27 Oct 2004, at 20:40, Evan Prodromou wrote:

>  What you're describing sounds equivalent in spirit to the Creative 
> Commons Attribution license. It makes credit mandatory, not optional 
> (per your second item), and it doesn't specify a format for 
> attribution (your third point), but otherwise it sounds about right. 
> You should look at the license and the license terms and see if 
> they're roughly acceptable to you.

You can pre-emptively waive attribution along with the license.

See:

https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/cc-licenses/2004-May/000864.html
https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/cc-licenses/2004-June/000961.html

I don't remember a definitive statement on how one does this (but I 
tend to page out mailing list discussions from my brain fairly quickly 
:-) ).

There's always Public Domain. CC can help you dedicate work. The Open 
Clip Art project is PD (http://www.openclipart.org/).

- Rob.