[WikiEN-l] cc-by-nw (Encyclopedia of Earth)

[David Gerard]

On 24/09/06, Daniel P. B. Smith <wikipedia2006 at dpbsmith.com> wrote:

> I have to wonder whether the combinatorial plethora of creative
> commons licenses is a problem of some kind.
...
> The general public doesn't understand the concept of a free license
> to begin with, how are they ever going to understand the zoo of
> possible licenses and what can and can't be done with them?


This is RMS's objection to the CC licenses, by the way - some are free
content licenses, some are quite definitely not.


- d.