Development of Creative Commons licenses

["Jonathon Blake" <jonathon.blake AT gmail.com>]

Terry wrote:

> Well, I prefer for there to be a distinction, because it matters to some 
> people.


How about:
 Violet:  BSD Style licences
 Indigo: GNU GPL style licences
 Blue:  Public Domain
 Green: CC
 Yellow CC-NC
 Orange CC-ND
 Red: All Rights Reserved
 Black:  Your rights removed.  Use Red for lettering & glyphs.
 [Infrared would be the more suitable colour, but most humans can not
see light in the infrared spectrum. Hence black. ]

> "Eye" -- this EULA requires you to give up privacy rights

+1

> "1"     -- single CPU limitations and other things that prevent you from

I like the concept.
I'm not sure people will understand what the "1" represents.
Would the Chinese glyph for "1" work any better here?  ㈠
[I couldn't find the correct glyph.  This one depicts "Enclosed numeral one"".
On second thoughts, Westerners might view that as a fence, as such, it
would be "appropriate".]]

> "padlock" -- DRM'd material, 'no reverse-engineering' clause

+1

> "no mouth" -- restricts freedom of speech: you agree not to publish

This glyph needs more work.
The Chinese glyph doesn't work here. 嘴

> (all four are in somebody's EULA -- I'm sure there's half-dozen more that 
> people have seen)

Offhand, I can think of several others, which make those seem
positively benign, and supportive of end-user-rights.

xan

jonathon
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