Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Terry Hancock <hancock AT anansispaceworks.com>]

drew Roberts wrote:
> On Monday 12 February 2007 07:24 pm, tomislav medak wrote:
>>sorry for getting into this minor matter in the license compatibility
>>thread, but hasn't the concern of conflation of different licenses with
>>different degrees of freedom been addressed with the new CC buttons that
>>indicate what license is being used? this really does resolve the
>>well-founded critique that came from the free software community.
> 
> No, not really unless I missed something. What is called for is a meta 
> button 
> that would to me cover BY and BY-SA licenses. It would be nice if some 
> support "areas" were set up by CC for this as well. A Free CC list, etc.
> 
> Certainly, license specific icons are a big improvement over the generic 
> icons.

What you are really looking for should not be through CC, but through
someone new like:

http://freedomdefined.org/Definition

who is specifically trying to address this "Free Cultural Expression"
issue. There are two major advantages to this approach:

1) Unnecessary to fight against the existing damage to the "Creative
Commons" brand.

2) Can also encompass the other free artistic licenses that exist (CC
has made it clear that they don't want to do this).

The analogy is to the "Open Source Initiative" which doesn't create
licenses, but only evaluates their "freeness". Thus "OSI Approved" means
something very specific (and nearly the same thing as "DFSG Free", by
the way).

Cheers,
Terry


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Terry Hancock (hancock AT AnansiSpaceworks.com)
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