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 8:40 UTC (Tue) by philipstorry (subscriber, #45926)Parent article: Stop the inclusion of proprietary licenses in Creative Commons 4.0 (freeculture.org)
Which would be a great shame.
The Creative Commons does indeed want more free culture - but they recognise that copyright maximalism has taken us to a point where most people don't understand licensing, and most licenses are reduced to a tiny printing of "all rights reserved". (Which most people will never see anyway, so they'll assume whatever's most convenient for their purposes.)
By making licensing easy, and encouraging licensing to be more visible, even the more restrictive licences benefit free culture, because it becomes easier to discern the author's intent.
As both a supporter of the Creative Commons and a user of their licences, I would rather we keep the -NC and -ND options. I don't see that they harm free or non-free culture.