[Foundation-l] Creative Commons CC-BY-SA Draft Statement of Intent

[Jimmy Wales]

geni wrote:
> 1)it gives us a degree of security. An issue with CC in the past is
> that they have had a tenancy to jump on bandwagons which made the
> future path of their licenses tricky to predict.

I do not agree. I am a board member of CC, and have seen the slow 
deliberative process that goes on there.  The board is full of good 
people committed to license predictability and stability.  The future of 
CC licenses is not difficult to predict.

> 2)the free cultural works stuff is another step towards the grand
> unified free content license which would be useful to us.
> 
> 3)section 3 looks like a step towards strong copyleft which has both
> pluses (reuses have to release more stuff under free licenses) and
> minuses (less incidental reuse and will bring the Free art license
> issue to a head).

*nod*

--Jimbo