Development of the Creative Commons Sampling license (or license option)

[Joshua Csehak <jcsehak AT rootrecords.org>]

> As it stands, if someone clicked "no", they should not get a CC 
> license. A "yes, however they wish" sounds like it would map to a 
> Public Domain license.

No, because you might want to allow derivative works but not 
distribution. Or vice-versa. But if both no's were selected (or nothing 
was checked in my simpler layout), it would map to a PD license.

> The others are nice obvious modifiers, but I don't understand the "not 
> alongside any other media" option. What license property does that map 
> to?

None. I was just throwing out the idea. Maybe if someone didn't want 
their song used in a movie w/o their permission, or their painting used 
as a book cover. Something like that. Haven't thought it all the way 
through.

> The rest of the options are logically arranged, getting more 
> restrictive as you go down the list. I'm assuming you were envisioning 
> these options as checkboxes (so you could click as many as necessary), 
> correct?

yup

> Technically, it doesn't seem impossible to map these questions to the 
> current set of licenses, though mixing new license properties into old 
> ones would throw a wrench into the current backend.

I certainly don't want to cause you guys extra trouble. I didn't expect 
that such a huge infrastructure was in place, but I can be dumb like 
that sometimes ;) But if the sampling license managed to address 
everyone's concerns, I'm sure it would be enough to last a long while, 
or at least replace most of the proprietary licenses out there.

Josh