Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Heather Morrison <hgmorris AT sfu.ca>]

We may as well agree to disagree on the basic philosophical question of 
whether the commons is for commercial sharing or for sharing outside of the 
commercial world, or both.

Creative Commons is trying to cover a lot of territory, a lot of differences 
in types and uses of works, communities and potential communities of users 
(with different worldviews), not to mention national and international law. I 
have a lot of respect for the people coordinating this effort and trying to 
come up with solutions that everyone can live with. It is possible that CC is 
trying to cover too much; it makes no sense to me that the kind of work that 
I do needs a license compatible with licenses designed for software. 

May I bring up for argument's sake that it would be optimal if CC-BY did NOT 
grant commercial rights, but that rather this would require a special 
license? 

Noncommercial is a broader concept than "commercial rights reserved" - it 
includes the concept that commercial rights are reserved, but also allows 
those who do not want their work used for commercial purposes at all a CC 
option. Not everyone will like this, but it is not realistic to please 
everyone. A commons that includes those who prefer NC (currently the majority 
of CC works, I understand) who would not move to commercial rights reserved 
(an unknown number - at least one person, me), is a larger commons than one 
that excludes our participation.

My two bits,

Heather Morrison