Re: [Fsfe-uk] Should Creative Commons Make Software Licenses?

[MJ Ray]

> "It has been suggested that there would be some value in CC entering the
> field of software licensing. [...] get feedback about the idea. [...]"

As I understand it, CC is already in the field of software licensing, as 
CC licences are already useful and used for software in general, but not 
recommended for programs. However, CC has a so-called "neutral" position 
about some of the big questions of software copyright at the start of 
the 21st century and its partner iCommons built anti-commercialism (the 
"creative flowerbed" approach[1][2]) into its foundations.

This compares badly within the clear leadership, open-access and 
pragmatism of the Free Software Foundation[3], so I am against CC 
increasing its software licensing effort.  Doing so would inevitably 
distract people from the free software effort and limit the size of the 
software creative commons unnecessarily.  I'd be disappointed if CC's 
objects permit it to harm an existing creative commons in this way, but 
I didn't find CC's foundation documents on http://creativecommons.org/

References
1. http://mjr.towers.org.uk/blog/2006/cc#flowerbed
2. 
http://www.robmyers.org/weblog/2006/11/08/why-the-nc-permission-culture-simply-doesnt-work/
3. http://www.fsf.org/

I await your decision with interest.
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