Development of Creative Commons licenses

["Erik Moeller" <erik AT wikimedia.org>]

On 4/23/07, Joachim Durchholz <jo AT durchholz.org> wrote:
> However, they aren't applicable to all situations. The GPL is
> Attribution/Derivative/Share-Alike, the LGPL is Attribution/Derivative.
> There's no option for Noncommercial or No-Derivative.
>
> I think cc.org could help here.

If by "help" you mean "cause needless division, friction and
incompatibility", then yes ;-). Even if one buys into the notion that
there are different "sharing cultures" around culture as a whole, the
open source/free software movement has clearly converged on a high
standard of freedom. The success stories of Apache, Linux, MySQL, and
so on would have been impossible without commercial use rights. If you
want to create a new fringe movement, I don't think it is the role of
CC to support that.


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