Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Evan Prodromou <evan AT prodromou.name>]

On Mon, 2007-14-05 at 17:10 -0700, Dana Powers wrote:

> But it is precisely this status quo that Creative Commons licensing
> hopes to avoid.  The confusing maze of rights clearance is a
> significant barrier to distribution and reuse of creativity.  By
> clearly pointing users to a rights holder and to a permission-granted
> license, CC licensors help hack away at the copyright mess.
> 
> To me this is the beauty of CC licensing, and I hope you will think
> carefully before discarding this deeply important piece of the
> commons.

It would be nice if you didn't have to use the URL, but could just use
the name of the license ("Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0")
or even the "initials" ("CC by-sa 3.0").

In 2007, it seems that the CC brand is well-known enough, at least to
Internet people, that it's really not necessary to include the URL. For
non-Internet people, including an URL isn't going to help, anyways.

One of my favourite Open Source licenses, the Academic Free License,
requires this language:

        Licensed under the Academic Free License version 3.0

-Evan

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