It used to be simpler
It used to be simpler
Posted Dec 18, 2012 13:53 UTC (Tue) by rfontana (subscriber, #52677)In reply to: It used to be simpler by tialaramex
Parent article: Fontana: What open source licensing could learn from Creative Commons (Opensource.com)
most contributors into the creative commons AFAICT are individuals who never ran the idea past a lawyer, rather than corporations or corporate employees acting for their employer. I think if you had the likes of Fox and Disney creating to this commons you'd see a Fox Commons and Disney Commons license that each introduced subtle differences on the advice of their lawyersMaybe, though I think your comment understates the degree of success I see Creative Commons having achieved in the corporate and governmental realms. When thinking about what to write about on opensource.com to commemorate the 10th anniversary of CC, I thought of talking about Red Hat's path from very limited use of Creative Commons (typically the non-free ones) to fairly extensive use of CC BY-SA for some purposes (much project and product documentation, and much of the opensource.com website content, being good examples).