Development of Creative Commons licenses

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

Can you explain to me why CC should use the

word "freedom" in a place where they could

be talking about something as restrictive as

CC-NC-ND-BY? 

 

That isn't freedom. It's a pittance.

It is a token given by the original author

which has no major impact on the community.

The author could just as easily make the work

All Rights Reserved and give they work away

at no cost on his website.

 

What's that got to do with freedom?

 

People are seriously kidding themselves

that they're doing some grand service to

the world when they use some of the most

restrictive CC licenses.

 

They are effectively no different than

making the work ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

and offering them for download at no cost

on the authors website. And yet, no one would

for a second view THAT as having anything

to do with freedom. But playing some license

games, using CC-ND-NC-BY, and doing effectively

the same thing, same result, but through a word game

called a license, people think they're doing something

related to freedom.

 

CC appears to be encouraging it because it

encourages people to use their licenses.

And apparently, that's CC's priority. membership.

Total number of license users. The types of licenses

used is irrelevent. And the confusion CC's advertising

campaign leads to, apparently, is irrelevant.

All that matters is membership. Which means that

"freedom" has come to mean exactly the same thing

as words like "patriot": i.e. "you belong to our group".

 

And I think everyone on the list knows ex

 

On 4/26/07, Björn Terelius <bjorn.terelius AT gmail.com> wrote:

Greg, can you explain to me why you think that the word freedom on the CC homepage confuses people. After all, as far as I remember from the discussion, nobody said that ND/NC were Free Software or even free (in the common sense).

I think that everybody on this list understand the CC licenses. Furthermore, the description of each license is so clear that anybody who knows th FSF definition of Free will understand that the CC licenses with NC or ND does not qualify as Free Software.


-Bjorn

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