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Creative Commons Launches Today
Luke Francl writes "On December 16, the Creative Commons is unveiling their commons licenses. Well, their website is up a little early Creative Commons provides an easy way for creators to give away some of their rights under copyright law without wading through hundreds of pages debating the merits of the GPL verus the OPL versus the FDL verus the public domain ad infinitum. By answering three simple questions, the Creative Commons web application selects an appropriate license for you. You can give it a try at the Choose a License page. They've also got a list of all the Creative Commons licenses." Peter Wayner has released his book Free For All under the license.
Anyone noticed that the Free For All book doesn't specify which Creative Commons license it's been released under?
Because, after all they don't want to impinge on /.'s territory.
Would the results of that page be called a
Legalize-O-Matic ?
Sledge-O-Matic, not just for spraying audiences anymore!!
hmmm... I wanted the
'you can do anything you like with this so long as you don't vote for or support George W Bush.'
Looks like I'll have to keep the formula for philosophers stone to my self for a while.
thank God the internet isn't a human right.
I can't use this, I want to go big time and there's no checkbox for "Jealously guard your copyright by, bribing senators, buying laws, destroying civil liberties in your country, and harming the customers who support you,"
Religion is a gateway psychosis. -- Dave Foley
Just Babelfish it: (English to Espanol and then back)
2. The Right Rights Of Uso. Nothing thinks about this license to reduce, to limit, or to restrict the no rights that appear of right use, the first sale or other limitations in the exclusive rights of the owner of copyright under applicable law of copyright or other laws. 3, License Grant. According to the terms and to the conditions of this license, the licenciador by this means grants (for the duration of copyright applicable) a world-wide, right license to him frees, non-exclusive, perpetual to down exercise the rights in the work according to the indicated thing: in order to reproduce the work, to incorporate the work in or more collective works, and to reproduce the work according to the built-in thing in the collective works; in order to distribute to copies or phonorecords of, it exhibits public, it realícese public, and it makes public by means of a digital audio transmission the work including according to the incorporated thing in collective works; The aforesaid rights can be exercised in all means and formats if now they are known or from now on devised. The aforesaid rights include the right to make the modifications such as they are technician necessary to exercise the rights in other means and formats. All the rights nonexpress granted by Licensor are not reserved by this medio.reserved.
Not Bad.
The master immediately slapped the disciple upside his head.
"Master, why did you strike me?"
"We have no need for yet another free software license!"
The disciple was suddenly enlightened.
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"Open source is good." - Steve Jobs
"Open source is evil." - Microsoft
"On first glance -- brown hair, pale skin, and undergrad-style clothes -- Rich Baraniuk looks like an average guy. But look at his eyes, and you know you're in the presence of something rare. They're giant and brown and fairly glowing with the light of the millions of synapses firing at the same instant. "
Go Rich go, let those synapses fire away w/those big eyeballs while we all gag.
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