Development of Creative Commons licenses

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

drew Roberts skrev:
> On Saturday 10 December 2005 08:04 am, Stefan Tiedje wrote:
> > rob AT robmyers.org wrote:
> > > Quoting Stefan Tiedje <Stefan-Tiedje AT addcom.de>:
> > >
> > > It may be. Certainly I gnash my teeth each time I hit an image that is
> > > under the
> > > FDL or NC-SA.
> >
> > which might be exactly what the copyright holder wants you to do, she
> > might not like the way you want to use her work....
>
>
> Sure, but this goes to a point I tried to make in a post a while back which is 
> that we are not actually promoting a creative commons (well, some of us may 
> be) but rather multiple, incompatible commons(es?) even within the Creative 
> Commons community.

Possibly, but remember that the *users* of open source/open content 
licenses needn't necessarily agree with the objectives of the 
organizations who has drafted the licenses. The users might have other 
motives, might not understand the licenses and/or only partially 
sympathise with the values of e.g. FSF or CC. In this respect the CC 
approach, i.e. with many different licenses, is a better approach than 
FSF's, because it allows more people to fit their needs within the legal 
framework of one of CC licenses, thus enabling more content to be used 
with fewer restrictions than would be possible under current copyright law.

Opening backdoors in the current CC licenses could from this perspective 
be a serious mistake on the part of CC.

/Peter Brink