Development of Creative Commons licenses

[James Grimmelmann <james AT grimmelmann.net>]

drew Roberts wrote:
> I don't actually think that the compatibility between the CC licenses is that 
> helpful from a Free point of view as it moves things to the more restricted 
> and less free licenses. See the reasoning of locking BY-SA works out of 
> CCMixter.

Having just BY-SA is better than having BY-SA-Monday, BY-SA-Tuesday, 
Son-of-BY-SA, Soylent-BY-SA, and many other incompatible flavors of 
BY-SA (even if most of them are comparably free).  So, while I agree 
with you that compatibility can hurt freedom under some circumstances, 
unnecessary incompatibility generally hurts freedom.

James