Development of Creative Commons licenses

["Benj. Mako Hill" <mako AT atdot.cc>]

<quote who="Lawrence Lessig" date="Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 10:02:43AM -0700">
> 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.

This seems like great news for many of the reasons mentioned by others
in the thread!

> We will not adopt as a  Creative Commons license any license that does
> not assure at least  this minimal freedom -- at least not without
> substantial public  discussion.

And this is even better! I'm thrilled that CC has taken this step toward
drawing a line in the sand and arguing for a explicit set of essential
or minimal freedoms -- even if it's not the set that I am currently most
comfortable with. These types of positions by CC are, I think, going to
be important to free culture's success.

I'm initially skeptical about adding the DevNations provisions to the
other licenses for a variety of reasons, some of which are related to
why I'm not sad to see the license go away now. That said, I'll think
hard about the implications now and participate in the discussion when
it happens.

Congratulations again on the important step.

Regards,
Mako

-- 
Benjamin Mako Hill
mako AT atdot.cc
http://mako.cc/

Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so
far as society is free to use the results. --RMS

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