Ars Technica

Creative Commons-like licenses for software?

TL;DR version: Is there a good equivalent to the creative commons by-nc and by-nc-sa licenses for (closed-source) software?<BR><BR>So, my company has developed a small application that we're intending ...
Ars Technica

Creative Commons licenses under scrutiny—what does “noncommercial” mean?

Wow. If taken to the (il)logical extreme, it seems like blocking any "commercial" provider, anywhere in the process of reproduction, would exclude just about every use of CC NC on the internet. Share ...
CNET

Creative Commons license upheld by court

A court in the Netherlands has ruled that a Creative Commons license is binding, in a case brought against a Dutch gossip magazine by an ex-MTV star. This is one of the first times that the ...
Princeton University

Creative Commons For Everyone: Copyright, Open Licenses, and Reuse

Creative Commons (or “CC”) licenses empower authors to share their work openly while maintaining copyright and some basic control of downstream reuse. While the logos have become a familiar part of ...
CNET

Why and how to fix Creative Commons

As readers of this blog know, two of my interests are photography and open source, so I'm naturally particularly interested in the way the two intersect with each other. As a result, I've been doing a ...