Interesting. The this reflects a very important (in my opinion) difference between the Free Software movement on the one hand and the Open Source and Creative Commons on the other. This is perhaps the defining difference between the two.
The idea behind Free Software was a kind of copyright jujitsu -- using the idea of licenses to create a space where people could play nicely together without having to worry about copyright as such. It was and is a necessary mechanism to protect the community from the outside world that wants to use copyright and licenses as a means to restrict what people are allowed to do. Restricting what people can do is seen as undesireable in general and a minimal set of conditions was settled on that was intended to maximise freedom. Open Source and Creative Commons is all about promoting copyright, strange as it may seen. Maybe there's an open and a not so open version of a piece of software, CC gives a whole selection of different bits of restrictions that people may or may not want to impose. OKF has gone some way towards mitigating this by asserting a definition of what it means to be open, but in many ways this is just re-treading the path the FSF has been on for 30 years. This new trend, I take it as a new generation that actually don't think the jujitsu is necessary. Their ecosystem is large enough that they are perhaps comfortable simply pretending that copyright doesn't exist. This is a promising development in my opinion. Far too much time and intellectual effort has been spent worrying about licenses instead of getting on with making things. It gives me hope for the future. Cheers, -w _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list okfn-discuss@lists.okfn.org http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss Unsubscribe: http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/options/okfn-discuss