Development of Creative Commons licenses

[drew Roberts <zotz AT 100jamz.com>]

On Tuesday 24 April 2007 02:49 am, Björn Terelius wrote:
> I agree with Joachim Durchholz, it would be great if the Creative
> Commons made adaptations for software. I can't understand why some of
> you guys dislike the idea so much. 

Possibly there are some of us who would be happy to see the day when only BY 
and BY-SA remain as viable CC licenses, the others having faded away into 
obscurity due to non-use.

> After all, why should it be possible 
> for an artist to release their creations as ND but not possible for a
> programmer based on some loosely defined "ethical principle" of open
> source. 

Are you calling for CC to drop ND? ~;-) sorry, just a joke.

> The Creative Commons are not the same as FSF and does not have 
> to share the FSFs opinions. I think that the programmer should have the
> freedom to choose the license he sees fit for his project, even if it
> isn't open source. That a ND licence for software would "cause needless
> division, friction and incompatibility" is simply not true. The
> incompatibility already exists. Just search the net for "freeware" and
> you will find thousands of  gratis but non-free programs.
> www.freewarehome.com alone claim to have more than 4500 programs for
> download, each probably with its own license.

Even though ND isn't meant for software, if you are determined to go 
non-Free, 
would ND not work for software if you intend ND?
>
> Regards
> Bjorn Terelius

all the best,

drew
>
> Erik Moeller skrev:
> > 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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