On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 07:01:05PM +0100, Wouter Vanden Hove wrote:
Last Fosdem the FSF gave the Free Software Award to Larry Lessig for the advancement of Free Software. But what is the official stance of the FSF's on the Creative Commons Share-Alike License?
I mailed FSF when Creative Commons was announced, asking if they'd publicly comment on it.
I got a reply saying that the goals were too different for them to comment. CC isn't for software.
Lessig is a good man, he's worked along side FSF in the past, gave them $20,000 last year, and Stallman reads his work.
I reckon they'd give a project of his the thumbs up.
Shouldn't the Creative Commons be urged by the FSF's to include the GPL as their preferred copyleft software-license?
I agree that they should have a note somewhere about it.
Maybe Lessig sees simplicity as a main aim in making the CC system work. ...or maybe you should send the CC guys a mail to suggest it.
Ciaran O'Riordan