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Stop the inclusion of proprietary licenses in Creative Commons 4.0 (freeculture.org)

Stop the inclusion of proprietary licenses in Creative Commons 4.0 (freeculture.org)

Posted Aug 28, 2012 4:56 UTC (Tue) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)
In reply to: Stop the inclusion of proprietary licenses in Creative Commons 4.0 (freeculture.org) by mjg59
Parent article: Stop the inclusion of proprietary licenses in Creative Commons 4.0 (freeculture.org)

CC licenses are great because they provide a continuous spectrum of licenses: from "barely free" to "one step short of public domain". That's their greatest value - authors can start with the most restrictive license and then perhaps upgrade to more a free license. Even Cory Doctorow started this way.

So restricting choices by killing some license variations would be a bad idea.


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