Creative Commons » SFLC http://creativecommons.org Share, reuse, and remix — legally. Fri, 24 May 2013 18:34:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Software Freedom Law Show on the history of documentation licensing http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/18350 http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/18350#comments Sun, 11 Oct 2009 02:20:11 +0000 Mike Linksvayer http://creativecommons.org/?p=18350 The Software Freedom Law Show, Episode 0×16 contains numerous bits of interest to CC geeks and is well worth a listen. The show’s hosts, Karen Sandler and Bradley Kuhn of the Software Freedom Law Center, discuss among other things:

  • How the GFDL turned out suboptimally — a key point is that developing good public licenses is very hard, the the GFDL was one of the very first for software documentation or other non-software works.
  • The migration of Wikipedia and sister projects from GFDL to CC BY-SA, successfully completed this June.
  • The importance of public license stewardship by mission-driven nonprofits — Bradley Kuhn’s writing on stewardship has been noted previously on this blog.
  • The license used for the show itself, which is CC BY-ND.
  • A promise to talk about the public domain and specifically CC0 in a future episode. Looking forward to it.

One quick addendum to the show, in which the hosts wonder if CC has a public versioning process. The answer is yes — see a a list of CC blog posts over the course of development of our 3.0 licenses. The next, eventual versioning will be even more public and rigorous, just as the GPLv3 had a development process far more in depth than that of any public software license that preceded it.


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