> "It has been suggested that there would be some value in CC entering the > field of software licensing. [...] get feedback about the idea. [...]"
As I understand it, CC is already in the field of software licensing, as CC licences are already useful and used for software in general, but not recommended for programs. However, CC has a so-called "neutral" position about some of the big questions of software copyright at the start of the 21st century and its partner iCommons built anti-commercialism (the "creative flowerbed" approach[1][2]) into its foundations. This compares badly within the clear leadership, open-access and pragmatism of the Free Software Foundation[3], so I am against CC increasing its software licensing effort. Doing so would inevitably distract people from the free software effort and limit the size of the software creative commons unnecessarily. I'd be disappointed if CC's objects permit it to harm an existing creative commons in this way, but I didn't find CC's foundation documents on http://creativecommons.org/ References 1. http://mjr.towers.org.uk/blog/2006/cc#flowerbed 2. http://www.robmyers.org/weblog/2006/11/08/why-the-nc-permission-culture-simply-doesnt-work/ 3. http://www.fsf.org/ I await your decision with interest. -- MJ Ray - see/vidu http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Somerset, England. Work/Laborejo: http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ IRC/Jabber/SIP: on request/peteble _______________________________________________ Fsfe-uk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk
