Development of Creative Commons licenses

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

On Monday 12 June 2006 05:14 am, Alek Tarkowski wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I have several comments regarding the color coding badges, in part based
> on a discussion on the same issue that ran in march on the cc-icommons
> list.
>
> points raised there against color coding included problems that color
> blind people might have, monochrome displays and ambiguity of the scheme
> when a single color
> is presented outside of the whole spectrum. basically, the buttons would
> have to direct everyone to an image of the whole spectrum for the scheme
> to be clear to new users of licenses / buttons.

I still think that colour would be useful. From your objections, I would say 
that the button scheme should not be colour dependant, but rather colour 
aided.
>
> personally, i don't
> consider blue or green to have anything to do with freedom, and then
> there are probably cultural differences in color symbolism that should
> be considered. and then yellow and orange makes me nervous, should i
> really be scared of a cc-by-nc-nd license? but then, when you look at
> the ever more common rss icon for instance, does the color seem to
> convey any information? i'd say, no - we're used to all sorts of colors
> on the web.

It would then come down to the need for symbolism in the colours or just 
easily recognized distinctions. I will leave that discussion to others for 
the moment.
>
> i agree that it is good to differentiate licenses - but maybe this does
> not have to be done at button level? maybe we need really good
> infographics describing the "freedom spectrum" of licenses? or more
> tools like firefox extensions (a mozcc add-on?) that could in some smart
> way convey such information?

I vote for the button level or something equally as visible and "in my face" 
- 
I don't want to have to move to the button to see which CC license it is, I 
want to glance and know. If you can think of something with the same ability 
and platform independent, let's toss it about.

BTW. The buttons would still work for printed material, etc.
>
> regarding the descriptions at the bottom, there might be a potential
> difficulty with
> translating them. firstly, in polish for instance 'free as in freedom'
> and 'free as in speech' does not sound particularly well as a short
> slogan. and 'your
> rights removed' translates into a string so long that the button would
> have to be at least two times wider!

Just put the CC "codes on the buttons? Let the descriptions be an optional 
descriptive text? (Brought to you by the Department of Redundancy Department 
which always recommends the GPL License for your software needs.)

>
> best,
>
> alek tarkowski

all the best,

drew
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