On 16/01/2008, Brianna Laugher brianna.laugher@gmail.com wrote:
Hm, do we also have no interest in providing better (or even any) machine readability for our content?
Machine readability would be good. Note that CC-GFDL exists precisely for this.
Is CC0 actually any different from {{PD-self}} legally?
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.
Creative Commons interests aren't identical to Wikimedia's, but Not Invented Here is not a good reason to shun their work if it's useful.
- d.