Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Rob Myers <robmyers AT mac.com>]

On Tuesday, February 01, 2005, at 03:05PM, Greg London <email AT greglondon.com> 
wrote:

>GPL puts community above the individual, which is fine.

It puts the *individual* first because it protects the individual's rights. 
Under the GPL, the community cannot deny the indidual the right to program. 
Or indeed to sell software.

The only "right" it removes is the "right" to take work from individuals and 
form a community around it that excludes those individuals.

>But it isn't "free" the way free speech allows an individual
>to say anything they want, including the freedom to dissent
>against the community.

Freedom of speech only allows you to dissent in speech (or writing, film, 
whatever). You can't riot or hold an armed uprising under freedom of speech, 
even although those are forms of dissent against the community. GPL allows 
you to fork your own project if you don't like a given development community. 
It just doesn't allow you to go proprietary.

- Rob.