[Commons-l] Creative Commons identifies "Free Cultural Works" approved licenses

Creative Commons has gone live with a new design for their two free content licenses: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ This design identifies the licenses as being compliant with the Definition for Free Cultural Works (and links to it). The DFCW is also the basis of Wikimedia's licensing policy, and has been linked to from the Free Software Foundation's definition of free software: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html It has also been endorsed by the Commonwealth of Learning for its large number of international educational initiatives. This support by Creative Commons should be welcome news to all Wikimedians, as it will make it easier for us to argue that all licenses are not, in fact, equal -- and that releases under licenses like CC-BY-NC or -ND simply do not work for us. We're continuing our dialog with CC, and their responsiveness has been amazing (thanks to any CCers reading this :-). The fact that our office is just a few blocks away now helps. :-) Best, Erik -- Erik Möller Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate