Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Alexandre Dulaunoy <alexandre.dulaunoy AT ael.be>]

On Tue, 3 May 2005, David Christie wrote:

> I've been lurking on this list for a while and reading the archives. This is
> my first post. I'm primarily interested in innovative open-source software
> licenses.
>
> Has anyone here been involved in discussions of an alternative to the CC
> Non-commercial license, analogous to the way Share-alike is an alternative
> to No-derivatives?
>
> I'm thinking of something like "Share-revenues", designed to (a) grant
> commercial rights, but (b) oblige commercial users to share part of their
> revenue with the copyright holder.


Just for  clarification is not at  all open source  (following OSI) or
free software  license (4 freedoms defined  by the FSF)  when you make
restriction on commercial/with-revenue or  alike.  When using NC, tt's
just another way to Ãmake proprietary licensing.

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