On Monday, 21 May 2012, Samuel Klein wrote:
O'Reilly is offering works under 14 years (c), thence CC-by
Campaign idea: set up a named class of license for friendly groups like O'Reilly that are committing to 14 years, which are defined by terming out in no more than 14 years to CC0 or equivalent PD declarations.
A thought on naming.
The obvious way to badge such a license is through Creative Commons; but we've spilled vast amounts of metaphorical ink over "is NC free?" and "is ND free?", and one of the results is a good deal of confusion over what a "free license" is, what we should campaign for, etc etc etc.
If we throw into the mix *another* license from the same stable, the situation gets even more muddled. The inevitable vague descriptions ("this work is under a creative commons license" with no definition or link is surprisingly common) will encompass a much wider range of use cases - "do what you like, just credit me" and "all rights utterly reserved until 2025" will be under the same umbrella.
- Andrew.