Open Content licenses

[lawrenceliang at vsnl.net]

----- Original Message -----
From: Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com>
Date: Tuesday, April 27, 2004 8:41 pm
Subject: Re: Open Content licenses

> Quoting Evan Prodromou (evan at wikitravel.org):
> 
> > I note that there's no current list of licenses made primarily for
> > non-software works that follow the principles and spirit of Open
> > Source software -- so-called "Open Content". 
> 
> You probably meant "...at the OSI Web site", but the above is part of
> what my site's PerlHoo1[1] knowledgebase page on
> http://linuxmafia.com/kb/Licensing_and_Law aims to cover.  (Suggested
> additions welcomed.)
> 
> > I believe there are a number of Open Content licenses that would
> > satisfy the Open Source Definition. Of particular interest to me are
> > the Creative Commons licenses -- a suite of 11+ licenses with
> > mix-and-match license elements for various uses.
> 
> I've found this the most-useful entry point to the CC licence
> smorgasbord, and link to it from my knowledgebase:
>
 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/
> 
> > I think that the following Creative Commons licenses could 
> satisfy the
> > Open Source Definition:
> > 
> >      Attribution (BSD-like)
> >      Attribution-ShareAlike (GPL-like)
> >      ShareAlike (GPL-like)
> 
> Concur.  (You'll notice that I allow access to material subject to my
> knowledgebase's compilation copyright using CC's Attribution-
> ShareAlike1.0 licence.)
> 
> [1] Neat CGI thing.  |'ve improved it a bit, and released changes at
> http://linuxmafia.com/pub/linux/apps/
> 
> 
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> Hi all

I am currently working on an essay on open content licenses as well as a lay person's  guide to the various open content licenses currently available, I will make that available to the group the moment it is ready

Lawrence Liang

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