[License-review] [PROPOSAL] Invite Creative Commons to submit CC0 Dedication.

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Chad Perrin (perrin at apotheon.com):

> I find that an awfully misguided approach, and think that the CC guys
> (presumably in service to an attempt to help people who aren't lawyers)
> end up obscuring a lot of the likely actual legal effects of their
> licenses by way of the "user friendly" interface to license selection and
> understanding.

You're entitled to your opinion, but in my own experience, CC's 'This is
a human-readable summary, and here's a direct link to the literal
licence terms' approach has been a roaring success, enabling multiple
audiences to understand as much as they want to know.  It's not as if
the 'legal code' is difficult to find.  Also providing a 'human-readable
summary' takes away nothing.

It helps that the summaries are written by sharp-eyed and fair-minded,
literate people with legal knowledge, and that the licences themselves
are well drafted.

And I suspect you'll find far fewer people who misunderstand the likely
legal effects of CC licences than those of most others, though that's
just my hunch.

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