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  • From: Mike Linksvayer <ml AT creativecommons.org>
  • To: Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [cc-licenses] Unbundling the GPL
  • Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 00:08:28 -0700

On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 08:54 +0200, Joachim Durchholz wrote:
> Erik Moeller schrieb:
> > The success stories of Apache, Linux, MySQL, and
> > so on would have been impossible without commercial use rights.
>
> Sure. A Commercial or Non-Derivative license would definitely have been
> wrong for these software packages.
> On the other hands, there are numerous less well-known software packages
> that would have been more clearly labelled as "this is not Open Source
> but you can use it anyway" if cc.org offered those other licenses.
>
> > If you want to create a new fringe movement, I don't think it is the
> > role of CC to support that.
>
> No.
> The GPL looks like good legal work, but it doesn't really fit the
> licensing model of cc.org,

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/GPL/2.0/

> and I'm curious why there's such a peculiar
> exception. Software is special, but it's not so special that it warrants
> such a massive exception as having just a single license that uses
> different language, different legal concepts, etc.

Path dependency. A priori software may not be that special.
Historically, it is.

Source-unavailable freeware, source-available payware, shareware, etc.
have been around for decades. That no commonly applied licenses for
these have developed is a huge warning sign.

Please ignore this sign and develop and evangelize such licenses. When
you've achieved massive adoption we could talk about a CC wrapper for
your licenses like we've done with the GPL. But I recommend first
discussing with people who have thought about these issues deeply. Join
http://www.crynwr.com/fsb/

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http://wiki.creativecommons.org/User:Mike_Linksvayer





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