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Creative Commons Launches Today

Posted by Hemos on from the better-for-the-world dept.

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.

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  2. Frost Pist. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Frost Pist.

  3. IN SOVIET RUSSIA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  4. YOU FAIL IT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  5. -1 Offtopic by NineNine · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Well, since the editors never post anything positive about MS, I'm just throwing this in. I've got karma to burn. This is really big news. MS is the FIRST Office suite vendor to store documents as XML in Office 11. People are bitching about the schema, but really, that won't be an issue. It can be very, very easily reverse-engineered by anyone with any kind of text viewer. 100% Open Standards from MS. Wow.

  6. Re:IN SOVIET RUSSIA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  7. This is just my opinion... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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