Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Peter Brink <peter.brink AT brinkdata.se>]

Rob Myers skrev:
> This is a community discussion. Everyone on there?
>
> On 24 Mar 2005, at 22:47, Peter Brink wrote:
>
> > When two people agree upon something that agreement is a legally 
> > speaking a contract. No open source license is anything else but a 
> > contract.
>
>
> American law disagrees with you:

[snip ...]

> Other jurisdictions may well differ.

They do... AFAIK in most of Europe Open Source/Content licenses are 
contracts and are therefore governed by contract law.

> > the fact that there is room for creativity when writing source code 
> > doesn't mean that such possibilities are used. Functions, procedures 
> > and methods run a real risk of not being copyrightable, simply because 
> > they do tend to contain expressions which are purely functional.
>
>
> Code (program listings) is a form of writing, that is what makes it 
> copyrightable.

Written expressions that are purely functional are still not copyrightable.


/Peter Brink