Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Michael Nottebrock <lofi AT freebsd.org>]

Lawrence Lessig schrieb:
> Today we are retiring two of the Creative Commons licenses -- the  
> stand alone Developing Nations license, as well as one of the three  
> Sampling licenses we offer. The reasons for these retirements are  
> both practical and principled.
>
> The practical reason is simple lack of interest: From the start,  
> Creative Commons has promised to keep our family of licenses as  
> simple as possible. Actual demand has been one of the key indicators  
> of how simple things can be. We estimate just 0.01% of our existing  
> licenses are Developing Nations licenses, and 0.01% are the version  
> of the Sampling license that we are retiring. Those numbers say that  
> these licenses are not in demand.
>   
I seem to remember that Cameron Sinclair of Architecture for
Humanity/Open Architecture Network mentioned the Developing Nations
license in his TED talk in 2006 and DN seemed to make particular sense
to me in that particular context - but OTOH, I indeed don't see much DN
licensed content on OAN. What's their feedback on this?

Cheers,
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