Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Bjorn Wijers <mailings AT bdisfunctional.net>]

Being the devil's advocate, not considering ethical and/or ideological 
viewpoints and it might be a very stupid question but:

What about making the code free under GPL, but use a trademark to 
protect your businessname and after that 'protect' your business methods 
with 'patents'? So basically the code is free for anyone to use, but the 
specifics of your business methods not?

- Could this work?

- Is this similar to how companies like Redhat can open their code but 
still 'protect' their business?

grtz
BjornW


Tom Hosiawa wrote:
> > Or if what Tom really wants is a GPL-like license that considers use in
> > a web app distribution, use http://www.affero.org/oagpl.html (which is
> > not OSI-certified, but the FSF apparently considers it a free software
> > license and potentially upward compatible with GPL 3.0, whatever that
> > means) or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reciprocal_Public_License (which
> > is OSI-approved, though it looks questionable to me, and the FSF says it
> > is non-free).
>
>
> That is basically what I'm looking for. I've read stuff about the GPL
> and people just saying it doesn't affect web apps, but I've never read
> a good argument on how it doesn't.