Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Mike Linksvayer <ml AT creativecommons.org>]

Takemoto wrote:
> As we have seen with open source, when the right licence exists
> there is a lot of sharing, and that means a lot of benefit for a lot of 
> people. To succeed a licence has to reward those that take part 
> to the right extent. 

I haven't been following this thread, so I may have missed something, 
but I think the above is misleading.  It took many years for open 
source/free software to take off and it isn't clear at all that adding 
the "right license" to the mix played any role.  GPL, LGPL and MIT/BSD 
have existed a very long time and still are the most used open source 
licenses.  Network effects were very important, especially in the case 
of the GPL.  MPL, CPL, etc., came after the movement reached critical mass.

What's more, licenses that fall out of the scope of the open source 
definition or on its margins (e.g., AGPL, RPL) have not seen wide adoption.

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 Mike Linksvayer
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