Development of Creative Commons licenses

["Bram @ Freesound" <freesound AT iua.upf.edu>]

Hello Everyone,



so, ok, I understand some of the (good) reasons to be against 
Attribution, and even more reasons to be against 
Attribution-NonCommercial. But, pandora's box is open, and the 822 
people (and rising) who have submitted to freesound will want to 
*choose* a new license for their currently Sampling+ released content, 
and new people will need to be able to choose at least between.

I would like to support PD, BY and BY-NC...

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It would be great if you guys could come up with a list of single-phrase 
sentences which would help the 'modal' user understand the bad points 
and good points of PD, BY and BY-NC.

Afterwards I will present the user of freesound with a simple list of 
choices, and list the bad/good points of each license next to it, with a 
nice monkey-proof "degree of freedom" sticker going from pd => 'very 
free' to by-nc => 'very restrictive'. ;-)

I prefer simpleness to completeness. I liked some of the anti-nc 
examples like "If you were a font-creator, would you want to be able to 
decide what's written with your font?". Examples like this are easy to 
understand by the modal user...

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It will be impossible to please everyone: I think letting people choose 
from *all* CC licenses is *way* too hard for "them". The only thing I 
can do is offer all good/bad points and let the user choose. Hopefully, 
given enough reasons users will select public domain.


cheers,


 - bram