Development of Creative Commons licenses

["Antoine" <antoine AT pitrou.net>]

> I think the idea is worth discussing. Increasing the amount of work
> available for mixing has a lot of merit. We need to explore options and
> see what we come up with. For example:
>
> 1. Talk to the FSF about removing invariant sections from the GFDL.
> 2. Make the BY-SA say "you can make this GFDL without inv. sections".

The GFDL is a /very/ complicated license with weird terms (some totally
unacceptable like the "invariant sections" stuff). For example they have a
convoluted definition of "Transparent Copy" whereas the definition of
"source code" in the GPL is much simpler and could have been taken as-is.
I think most people can simply not comply with these terms because they
are too complicated - uselessly complicated. (*)

My own personal opinion is that the GFDL should be de facto deprecated in
favor of both the FAL and the CC-by-sa :)


(*) As says the Zen of Python:
  Simple is better than complex.
  Complex is better than complicated.

Regards

Antoine.