Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Joachim Durchholz <jo AT durchholz.org>]

Rob Myers schrieb:
> Joachim Durchholz wrote:
>
> > This being just an informed layman's point of view, I'm pretty sure 
> > there's a lot of legal footwork involved to get this right, but it would 
> > be very helpful. Just imagine that people wouldn't be forced to roll 
> > their own licenses because the GPL agenda doesn't fit the constraints 
> > under which they can make their software Open Source.
>
> The Open Source definition explicitly precludes NC and ND licenses. So 
> it is not possible to call something Open Source that is licensed with 
> those constraints.

Sure, we'd have CC licenses that don't fit the definition of "Free and 
Open Source Software".

I'm not sure that this would be a Bad Thing. (Assuming that this is 
clearly stated on cc.org's pages, of course.)

Would it?

Regards,
Jo