On 01/12/2007, Anthony wikimail@inbox.org wrote:
But, in order to have any chance of this, we need to get a list of complaints. What problems do people have with CC-BY-SA? I'm asking this of everyone on the list.
I remember a very interesting comment made by someone who'd spent a lot of time contacting musicians, I think, to ask them about CC-licensing their work. One of the reasons they were getting rejected was the perception that this was another external group trying to impose its name on their work, another little label or badge to put on their product, and basically treating it as though their work would help to promote the license not the other way around.
"We're releasing our own work because we dislike brands. Why should we make our work carry *your* brand?"
This rang a lot of bells - I'd heard this sort of disquiet before, the way that CC is a snappy little logo and a lot of impassioned evangelism turning people off.
Maybe not entirely *rational*, but there are a good few out there who dislike CC as a name rather than the details of any specific license.