Development of Creative Commons licenses

[adam hyde <adam AT xs4all.nl>]

hey

well, in my opinion CC is a mess. I'm sorry to have to say it, but its
just too confusing to anyone wanting to use material to have a dozen
licenses to contend with, with no information about what licenses are
compatible internally or external to the CC license family.

The GPL is 1 license, and can be applied to non-software:
"any work of any nature that can be copyrighted can be copylefted with
the GNU GPL."
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/nonsoftware-copyleft.html

I wish the CC would have made the CC-GPL wrapper and stopped there. It would 
have made the world a much better place for freedom of content.

As for the FDL. It is not a free license, and the FSF should drop it. I
can't believe they get away with saying it is 'free' when it has clauses
intended to protect publishers form losing their publishing business
model.:
"Meanwhile, the GFDL has clauses that help publishers of free manuals
make a profit from selling copies"
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#WhyNotGPLForManuals

Also, if someone can explain to me what the difference is between
documentation and software I will buy them that elusive free beer.

adam



On Mon, 2007-07-23 at 12:46 +0200, B. Jean wrote:
> adam hyde a écrit :
> > hi,
> >
> > I just modified the CC-GPL wrapper a bit to make it easier to read, and
> > also to use it for applying to documentation.
> >
> > If anyone has time to look at it I would appreciate any comments about
> > its wording and if I have left out anything critical:
> > http://en.flossmanuals.net/license
> >
> > adam
> >   
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Just a question : what's the reason for using GNU GPL on documentary 
> works ? This well-known license is excellent for software, but unadapted 
> for other works, like books or manuals. For exemple, the GNU GPL v2 do 
> not speak about " representing " the work : thereby, you can copy the 
> work, but you are not allowed to represent it...
> Some other licenses, like the CC-By-SA or the next GNU SFDL, are written 
> consequently and would be more appropriate.
> 
> Best regards,
> Ben
> 
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adam hyde
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