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Towards a Standard of Freedom

July 30, 2005 at 10:09 | Tags: Creative Commons, IP, English |

Towards a Standard of Freedom: Creative Commons and the Free Software Movement is a lenghty and very interesting piece by Benjamin Mako Hill comparing Creative Commons to the free software movement.

For the CC founders and many of CC’s advocates, FOSS’s success is a source of inspiration. However, despite CC’s stated desire to learn from and build upon the example of the free software movement, CC sets no defined limits and promises no freedoms, no rights, and no fixed qualities. Free software’s success is built upon an ethical position. CC sets no such standard.