On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, Russell Nelson wrote: > Evan Prodromou writes: > > So, the Creative Commons licenses are not OSI-approved: > > Only because nobody has submitted them.
As I see it only 2 of the 6 permutations would qualify as Open Source if applied to software. The "no derivatives" and "no commercial" don't quality, leaving Attribution (non-copyleft, BSD like) and Attribution-ShareAlike (copyleft, but not as complex as the GPL). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ I didn't look into the actual licenses in detail yet, and am basing this quick analysis just on the Commons Deeds. I think it would be informative for the OSI to look at the actual licenses in detail and offer that advise. The Creative Commons licenses are not just focused on "peer production" type goals like the OSI, but also just simple "peer distribution". -- Russell McOrmond, Internet Consultant: <http://www.flora.ca/> Open letters with Susan Crean http://www.flora.ca/creators/ Petition for Users' Rights, Protect Internet creativity and innovation Election 2004: http://digital-copyright.ca/ -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3