Dr. Matt Lee (mattl)

Web standards, accessibility, free/open source software, old UNIX/TV/Music and occasional wargaming

heise on-line - WOS 4: Free software representatives criticize Creative Commons licenses (2006) (2006)

With the choice of Creative Commons licenses Creative Commons users decide usually for the more restrictive variants. Free software representatives criticized OS 4 in Berlin Creative Common initiator Larry Lessig with the Wizard OF for the fact that thereby the original idea of a larger movement for free culture becomes counter cross-hatched. “If I the FreeCulture movement regard, am really anxious I,”? said FOSS Aktivist Benjamin Mako Hill of WITH Media lab. , Thus which “liberty”? actually my, is missing to Hill, a general definition of it. “Creative Commons did not bring a movement toward “works any longer not protected”?,”? to criticized Hill. Today less programmer would generally program free software than still in the 90s-years. The “municipality”? must inform itself therefore in principle over it where one wants.

English translation or Original German article.

Published: Tue Oct 03 2006 02:26:03 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time) by