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Updating the FAQ – What questions would you like to see answered?
by mia UncategorizedSo our FAQ is out-of-date (no surprises there) and we’d like to make it up-to-date so that it is relevant and useful to people who use our licenses and tools, and people who use works licensed under one of the Creative Commons licenses. To make sure it is useful & relevant, we’d like feedback from…
Debates about global issues, politics and culture set "CC-free"
by mia UncategorizedIn recent news – openDemocracy.net has announced that it is releasing the articles of around 150 of its existing authors under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license and will also be incorporating the option of Creative Commons licensing for all future contributors. openDemocracy is an online magazine that provides a forum in which global issues relating…
The Politics of the Adoption of Open Source
by mia UncategorizedAn interesting wiki has been set up by the Social Science Research Council, inviting collaboration on a real-time history and analysis of the politics of open source adoption (POSA). By ‘politics of adoption’ the SSRC seeks to step back from the task of explaining or justifying Free and/or Open Source Software (F/OSS) in order to…
Open Access Publishing Takes Another Step Forward
by mia UncategorizedScience Commons – a new project of Creative Commons that works to encourage sharing of scientific and academic knowledge – has launched an Open Access Law Program. The Program is designed to make legal scholarship “open access,” that is freely available online to everyone, without undue copyright and licensing restrictions. The Program involves an Open…
Comments Period Drawing to a close for Draft License Version 2.5
by mia UncategorizedThe comments period announced here for the minor tweak to the attribution language across all of our core licenses proposed for version 2.5 is drawing to a close. As befits a minor tweak, there has not been a tremendous amount of criticism or issues raised with the revised suggested language. Some important comments, however, raised…