Fontana: What open source licensing could learn from Creative Commons (Opensource.com)

At Opensource.com, Red Hat's Richard Fontana expresses his admiration for the "coordinated, centralized manner in which CC licenses are conceived, drafted and revised, and the successful occupation of the full policy field of open and quasi-open content licensing by Creative Commons." By comparison, he says, the de-centralized and organic growth of free software licenses lacks the "great emphasis on simplification of use, understanding, and identification of the various license categories".

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