Development of Creative Commons licenses

["J.B. Nicholson-Owens" <jbn AT forestfield.org>]

Mike Linksvayer wrote:
> Open Source does not only refer to a type of development methodology.
>
> See http://opensource.org/docs/definition.php

The only time the definition of "open source" refers to anything being
"free" is when they're referring to price (section 1 of the definition
refers to "Free Redistribution" which prohibits giving away or selling
source code as a component of an aggregate software distribution).

The open source movement's philosophy is a development methodology aimed
chiefly at businesses according to what's on their front page: (emphasis 
theirs -- bold represented as caps)

> The BASIC IDEA BEHIND OPEN SOURCE is very simple: When programmers 
> can read, redistribute, and modify the source code for a piece of 
> software, the software evolves. People improve it, people adapt it, 
> people fix bugs. And this can happen at a speed that, if one is used
> to the slow pace of conventional software development, seems 
> astonishing.
>
> We in the open source community have learned that this rapid 
> evolutionary process produces better software than the traditional 
> closed model, in which only a very few programmers can see the source
> and everybody else must blindly use an opaque block of bits.
>
> Open Source Initiative exists to make this case to the commercial 
> world.

Mike Linksvayer wrote:
> IMO development methodology is entirely secondary to freedoms granted
> by open source software [...]

I don't think that's correct.  For the open source movement, software
freedom is not a proper frame for the issues they raise.  That movement
talks about rapidly improving programs to produce programs with fewer
bugs and better features.

Freedom talk is something the OSI calls "ideological tub-thumping"
in their FAQ.  I take that to mean that freedom talk is most definately
discouraged in the open source movement because it gets in the way of
making their pitch on "solid pragmatic grounds" to their primary
audience: businesses.