Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Mike Linksvayer <ml AT creativecommons.org>]

On Mon, 2007-04-02 at 13:41 -0700, Mike Linksvayer wrote:
> I suggested some better practices at the bottom of
> https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/cc-community/2007-February/001579.html
> 
>         If I were you I would encourage people to use the standard CC
>         buttons/link and a free button that could be placed alongside
>         the CC
>         license button and would link to something like
>         http://freedomdefined.org/check
>         
>         The code at that URL would scrape the referrer.  If content at
>         the
>         referrer includes a link to an approved license, the user gets a
>         page explaining why the license is free, if not they get warned
>         of a bogus usage of the free button and encouraged to use a
>         really free license.
> 
> Actually, if I were you :-) I'd probably come up with a single set of logos
> that don't mention a specific license for use as above, especially given 
> that you've defined some requirements (source) that aren't inherent in 
> several of the qualifying licenses or public domain.

Furthermore, I don't know of *any* license that by itself requires a
licensee meet *all* four of the requirements under "Defining Free
Cultural Works", so it really seems that attempting to bundle license
notification and marker of status as a free work together is suboptimal.

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