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Creative Commons -- Now With More Science

Posted by timothy on from the near-infinite-library dept.

The Importance of writes "Yesterday, Creative Commons announced the launch of 'the Science Commons exploratory phase.' This may eventually become a sister organization of Creative Commons that 'will delve into both legal areas (patents, data) and subject matter (biomedicine) outside the scope of [the] current organization.' In related news, the open access science publisher, BioMed Central, has adopted CC's 'attribution license' for their over 100 peer-reviewed journals."

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  1. Time to update the GPL by aminorex · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The GPL needs to be updated to make it
    compatible with attribution restrictions.
    The old BSD license debate should be informed
    by the newly available facts. A detailed
    argument would be vast and misplaced, since
    only RMS has actual decision influence over
    the GPL, but promoting community reflection
    of the inconsistencies in his principled
    stance is not misplaced.

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    1. Re:Time to update the GPL by bcrowell · · Score: 3, Interesting
      GPL and BSD are software licenses. They were never intended to be licenses for books and articles. There was a first generation of licenses for this kind of thing, the OPL and GFDL, and the CC licenses represnt a second iteration on those.

      The GPL needs to be updated to make it compatible with attribution restrictions.
      The GPL intentionally doesn't allow this, because it became a huge problem for BSD-style licenses. The lack of attribution requirements in the GPL is a feature, not a bug.

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