Development of Creative Commons licenses

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

On Tuesday 28 November 2006 04:46 pm, James Grimmelmann wrote:
> Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts wrote:
> > James wrote:
snip...
> > I'd suggest that creating more variants now will be much better -- both
> > short term and long term --- than doing so in the future.
>
> More licenses also creates more incompatible pools of CC-licensed
> material.  This problem is bad enough when each attribute linked to SA
> creates its own pool that can't be combined with the other SA pools.
> Doubling or tripling the number of such pools -- especially without a
> good sense of which ones would attract significant use -- scares me.

It is certainly valid to fear this. However, like I said in another post, is 
the alternative that new non-CC licenses develop to meet the need really any 
better?
>
> James

all the best,

drew

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