Development of Creative Commons licenses

[drew Roberts <zotz AT 100jamz.com>]

On Wednesday 29 March 2006 08:19 pm, Greg London wrote:
> Well, by "proprietary fork" or "commercial fork"
> I mean someone is able to get more rights to the
> work than is available to the gift economy project.

The problem I see with this is that I do not see that "proprietary fork" is 
equivalent to "commercial fork" and so I agree that a copyleft licence 
legally prevents a "proprietary fork" all things being equal. (Please note 
that some projects get around this though. I think MySQL might be an 
interesting study in this light.) However, commercial "forks" abound.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=define%3A+commercial&btnG=Google+Search

One person sells his version and another his.  You just have to compete 
commercially on something other than a government granted monopoly. This is 
entirely possible though. (Forgive me if I am wrong and this is a poor 
example, but isn't fashion just such an arena? Do designers get to copyright 
their fall lines?)

So, I took your A or B to mean one or the other of two things, not one or the 
other description of the same thing. It seems you meant the latter and I do 
not agree that that is correct as I have tried to explain.

all the best,

drew
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