Perspective
Jun. 23, 2009
Creative Differences
Douglas E. Phillips discusses the legal uncertainties of Creative Commons licenses in his book "The Software License Unveiled: How Legislation by License Controls Software Access."
Judging solely from the debate between proprietary software, on one hand, and free and open source software, on the other, one could easily conclude that the most distinctive feature of software licensing today is the lack of consensus. In fact, though, nearly all current software licensing models, spanning the spectrum from proprietary to free, share a key feature. The GNU General Public License, no less than the typical proprietar...
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