[License-discuss] Shortest copyleft licence

[Rick Moen]

Quoting David Woolley (forums at david-woolley.me.uk):

> It gets political by the second word of the full form of CC!  Common
> ownership of intellectual property is definitely a political goal.

1.  Nigel's claim was merely that the CC-BY-SA licence itself was apolitical.

2.  Interpreting the _organisation's_ name in a daftly literalist way is
IMO unconstructive in this context:  Despite what 'commons'
traditionally means in law, the Creative Commons organisation neither
aspires to common ownership nor achieves it.  Like much else in real
life, there's a metaphor involved.

> A more complete manifesto can be found in
> <http://creativecommons.org/about/reform>.

Which would be irrelevant to Nigel's point.