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Creative Commons Launches Version 4.0 of Its Licenses

Posted by timothy on from the good-news-about-fine-print dept.

revealingheart writes "Creative Commons has launched new versions of their flexible copyright licenses, after two years of input. Changes include waiving database and moral rights where possible, and adjustments to attribution requirements. Licenses are now designed to work internationally by default."

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  1. Good by Billly+Gates · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Like to see alternatives to GNU. It has way too much popularity in the majority of software out there. Though the popular ones like X and Mozilla have their licenses. I like the BSD personally but would like to see more take off as well.

      I am aware CC is more common with literal works than source code but it can be applied to both.

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  2. Re:BSD-bad, MIT-good by Billly+Gates · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Stallman opposes companies and anyone wanting to make a living writing software when he bashes tax payer funded code with forcing corps who also pay taxes from not using it.

    You can mod me down or call me what you like but it is fact that if I want to buy a mac (I hate Apple but for the sake of argument) and there is a cool piece of software then I can not have it. Why? If Apple does one include statement in c++ that includes a header that is GNU then the whole thing has to be free as well which is why critics called GPL viral.

    I am not a troll here. But corporations have a right to distribute software as well. Sure the code is yours and if you don't want the mean bad corp to use it then use GNU. While it is true that corporations can use GNU they can not distribute it.

    So MacOSX can't use it hence why they use CLANG now.

    Many programmers do not know when they make source GNU they prohibit any use that is non free. LGPL satisfies this but no one knows what that is and then the programmers wonder why no one is using their source besides other geeks.

    BSD new style is not really that much different than the old other than I do not have to give credit to some college at Berkeley that I never went too. The GPL V2 vs V3 is very incompatible.

    My point is I want to see more licenses because I fear this GNU thing is a religion. At the end of the day if someone wants to make money I have no problem using it.

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