Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Gottfried Hofmann <toddd AT mypse.goracer.de>]

> Copyleft won't allow it.
>
> But copyright WILL allow it.
> You can create a proprietary fork of someone's BSD code.
> Which means copyright is a superset of copyleft.
> And which means copyright allows individuals do more
> than copyleft allows.

Copyleft is about granting individuals certain rights. When you obtain 
GPLed code you have any rights to do things with the code as long as you 
pass those rights along to the next individual whom you might give that 
code.
It's just as freedom: You're free as long as you don't harm the freedom 
of other individuals.

Copyright doesn't even bother to give you as an individual certain 
rights (unless the owner grants you some of them).
For Example: You must not sell or modify the leaked Windows 2000 
sources. But you, as an individual, can do so with the Linux Kernel 
sources. Copyleft granted you all those rights and it protects other 
individuals' rights by not allowing you to make the code proprietary as 
you pass it along.