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  • From: "Erik Moeller" <erik AT wikimedia.org>
  • To: "Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts" <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [cc-licenses] New licensing buttons
  • Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2007 02:40:55 +0200

On 4/2/07, Mike Linksvayer <ml AT creativecommons.org> wrote:
* Merely putting one of these buttons on one's site does not identify a
specific license used. There is no indication on
http://freedomdefined.org/Logos_and_buttons that one should link to the
specific license used.

I've clarified it a bit.

* fd.o links to http://freedomdefined.org/Licenses/CC-BY-2.5 rather than
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ which means the page will
not be recognized by Google or Yahoo! as falling under the intended
license.

The current link is not optimal. But since we have two links on the
page, we might have the button point to the freedomdefined.org, and
the text link to the CC deed with "rel" license. It is also possible
that we will do away with the idea of having our own license
description pages, especially if CC were to e.g. include the Free
Cultural Works identification on its own description pages.

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.

The definition neatly distinguishes between free licenses and free
works; the buttons, by virtue of their simplicity, do not. I think
that level of vagueness is acceptable. If someone puts a button on
their page, expecting their work to be "free", and someone contacts
them and points out: "Wait, according to .., you should actually be
doing this / not be doing this", those are the kind of social dynamics
we want to encourage.
--
Peace & Love,
Erik

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