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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.
Its pretty good idea. Easy yo use, and tells you why it chose that license as well as gives an easy to understand description of the license as well as the full detailed license text.
Again well thought out idea that will hopefully help many people use more open licenses now that they can easily find which one to use.
We were all warned a long time ago that MS products sucked, remember the Magic 8 Ball said, "Outlook not so good"
It's interesting -- definitely a way to simplify the daunting task of picking a license. I recently began to roll my first SourceForge project and can tell you the license-selection step is very intimidating.
;)
Then again, I don't have the GPL stitched on my pillowcase like some of you.
-- jimmycarter
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.
ShareAlike license -- the one you get if you click just the "sharealike" option when selecting licenses.
And if it is not, what was the need to create another license with the same conditions?
Unlike the GNU GPL, Creative Commons licenses are not be designed for software, but rather for other kinds of creative works: websites, scholarship, music, film, photography, literature, courseware, etc.
There is a pretty good FAQ too.
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The ShareAlike License looks like it requires that any modifications be distributed under the ShareAlike license (and no other). The GPL only requires that the key provisions of the GPL be followed. If you want to distribute your derivative work under a different (but compatible) license, that is acceptable under the GPL but not under the ShareAlike License. Without reading the fine print, that requirement may actually make the ShareAlike license incompatible with the GPL (as it puts additional restrictions).
It's funny, you can spend time posting stuff on /. but can't find time to assist an Open Source project.
You could help with documentation, you could help with testing, you could help in their community assisting others.
That's what sharing is all about, making choices that aren't always just about you.
Who's going to teach your kids that ?
on the "Free for All" website. Come on. Not only was the parent an idiot, at least one moderator has propegated this bullshit.
OK, so this web site gives licenses for the US, in english.
Are the licenses applicable outside the US?
If so, wouldn't it be nice to provide the license text in other languages (at least the main ones: French, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, etc.)?
JB.
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