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August 27, 2012 11:05 pm

Creative Commons Urged To Drop Non-Free Clauses In CC 4.0


TheSilentNumber writes "A member of Students for Free Culture has just published a thorough and detailed post calling for the retirement of the non-free clauses, NoDerivatives (ND) and NonCommercial (NC). They state, 'The NC and ND clauses not only depend on, but also feed misguided notions about their purpose and function.' and that 'Instead of wasting effort maintaining and explaining a wider set of conflicting licenses, Creative Commons as an organization should focus on providing better and more consistent support for the licenses that really make sense.'"Note that the opinions expressed are of the author alone and not necessarily the entire organization. More info on the process of revising the CC licenses.

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