On Thu, 6 May 2004, Lawrence Rosen wrote: > Alex Rousskov wrote: > > Is there any active cooperation between OSI leaders and CC leaders to > > build a common interface to "good" software licenses? Or are we going > > to see yet another fragmentation here? > > What makes you think there isn't already active cooperation?
I did not claim there was not! I asked whether there was. > I know from personal experience that Larry Lessig and others > involved in Creative Commons are quite familiar with open source > licensing, as are we with their creative commons licensing. Sure. > They've got their tasks and we've got ours. What particular > projects would you suggest we work on together? 1) A software license creation interface that allows one to create an OSI-approved license or public domain designation by answering a few basic questions. CC has that for content, but not for software. This includes user- and lawyer-friendly versions of licenses and designations. 2) Marketing and behind-the-scenes maintenance of the above. CC does that for content licenses (and for Public Domain designations). Alex. -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3
