Development of Creative Commons licenses

["Greg London" <greglondon.1 AT gmail.com>]

On 4/25/07, Dana Powers <dana.powers AT gmail.com> wrote:

How many authors have licensed their work under Creative Commons?  In
the millions?  Of those, how many who have affirmatively licensed
their work under a No-Derivatives license, or a Non-Commercial
license, do you think had their reasonable expectations unprovided
for?  How many feel that Creative Commons has misrepresented "freedom"
to them?

I wonder.

Oh but they would!  If only they knew what real Freedom was!

 

 

If you were really honest in that statement, then you should have no objection

to changing the wording from "freedom" to "right".

 

If they really mean the same to you, the switching them would have

no negative impact on you, would they. Meanwhile, switching them

would have a huge positive impact on a number of people who know

and understand the difference.

 

But they're not the same to you. "Freedom" has some benefit to you,

so you are attached to it.

 

If they're really no different, then you shouldn't have a problem swapping it.

 

If "Freedom" has some benefit to you over something more accurate like "right",

then your sarcasm above is a lie.