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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] Unbundling the GPL
  • Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 22:13:19 +0200

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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