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He also reflects on the position of freely-distributed software before Linux changed to the GPL. | He also reflects on the position of freely-distributed software before Linux changed to the GPL. | ||
| − | [http://ozlabs.org/~rusty/index.cgi/IP/2005-07-05.html Interestingly], a party to this debate, David Starkoff, relicensed his blog [http://www.dbs.id.au/blog/ ''Inchoate''] in July 2005, opting for the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives licence | + | [http://ozlabs.org/~rusty/index.cgi/IP/2005-07-05.html Interestingly], a party to this debate, David Starkoff, relicensed his blog [http://www.dbs.id.au/blog/ ''Inchoate''] in July 2005, opting for the [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.1/au/ Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 2.1 Australia] licence. |
|Motivations=Positioning himself in contrast to [http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1838244,00.asp John Dvorak’s] confusion surrounding the Creative Commons initiative, John Quiggin writes a glowing appraisal of the ideas expressed in these open content licences. In particular, he defends his choice of the non-commercial, attribution, share-alike version of the Creative Commons licence, which allows anyone to reproduce the work from the blog, with attribution and for non-commercial purposes, as long as they share it under the same conditions. [http://johnquiggin.com/index.php/archives/2005/07/20/the-creative-commons-as-a-default-rule/ Quiggin states] that he has selected this licence, ‘not because it’s necessarily the best option in all, or even most cases, but because it’s the best default rule.’ | |Motivations=Positioning himself in contrast to [http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1838244,00.asp John Dvorak’s] confusion surrounding the Creative Commons initiative, John Quiggin writes a glowing appraisal of the ideas expressed in these open content licences. In particular, he defends his choice of the non-commercial, attribution, share-alike version of the Creative Commons licence, which allows anyone to reproduce the work from the blog, with attribution and for non-commercial purposes, as long as they share it under the same conditions. [http://johnquiggin.com/index.php/archives/2005/07/20/the-creative-commons-as-a-default-rule/ Quiggin states] that he has selected this licence, ‘not because it’s necessarily the best option in all, or even most cases, but because it’s the best default rule.’ | ||
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John Quiggin is an Australian economist and academic who writes a blog dealing with local and global issues from a social-democratic perspective.
The Creative Commons is a crucially important initiative. The most important innovations of the past twenty years, those associated with the rise of the Internet, have been driven primarily by bottom-up creative collaboration and not by intellectual property or centrally planned research. — John Quiggin
