Development of Creative Commons licenses

[rob AT robmyers.org]

Quoting Greg London <email AT greglondon.com>:

> > http://x.narya.net/static/terry/cc_colors.png
> > http://x.narya.net/static/terry/cc_colors.svg
>
> > 4) The colors are the scheme I originally proposed, of course.

Those are very cool.

> That copyleft is on the far left and
> public domain is in the middle is
> a bit of an issue for me.
>
> > From a legal rights point of view,
> a spectrum would have
> public domain at zero,
> copyleft at 1 and
> copyright at 2.

Ordering the licenses depends how one defines "freedom". You keep more 
creative
rights over time with copyleft than you give away economic rights with pd or
pd-figleaf licenses (like BSD), for example.

Possibly since PD, BSD (or BY, attribution aside) and copyleft are all 
FSF-Free
and DFSG-Free we could avoid a meltdown by agreeing that all three are "free
enough". NC and ND would be "less free", and ARR would be "fair use only". Or
something.

- Rob.