Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Rob Myers <rob AT robmyers.org>]

(It is excellent that CC have deprecates Sampling and DevNations. Thank 
you to everyone at CC who made this possible.)

Jonathon Blake wrote:

> Gift economies and the tension between gratis and non-gratis distribution.

Gift economies are downstream of, that is they are epiphenomena of, rights.

> The foreign aid policy of the PRC under Chairman Mao was probably the
> most beneficial aid for the recipients of that aid, of any of the
> super powers.
>
>  I'm not sure how that can be translated into a usable license.  :(

As someone who spends *far* too much of their time thinking about 
licenses I would say that there are some (*many*...) things that cannot 
be achieved using licenses. We should pursue them by other means.

- Rob.