[Commons-l] Fwd: [cc-licenses] CC0 beta/discussion draft launch

[geni]

On 16/01/2008, Brianna Laugher <brianna.laugher at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 17/01/2008, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 16/01/2008, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > So is it useful for us to add CC0 as a licence option equivalent to
> > > our "public domain or equivalent" (where, if public domain release is
> > > not possible, the work is licenced for use by anyone for any purpose)?
> >
> > No since we have zero interest in promoting CC branding of free
> > material.
>
> Hm, do we also have no interest in providing better (or even any)
> machine readability for our content?
>

We have various mechanisms for doing that within our existing systems.
Machine readability may not be great but is getting better.

> Treating everything that comes out of CC like poison is as unuseful as
> treating everything that comes out of CC like gold. The question is:
> what would the benefits for Commons be? And  I see the answer as
> better machine readability and the general benefits that eventually
> come from standardisation. Not tomorrow, but if in a few years people
> go "oh yeah, CC-0, I'm familiar with that from X,Y & Z other sites"
> then... everyone benefits.
>

A few years? In that kind of time frame we could have people talking
about {{PD-self}} and our own machine readable system.

-- 
geni