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the growing commons

January 7, 2003 9:47 AM - comments (3)

Bruce Perens has extraordinarily great news about a deal he's struck with Prentice Hall to permit "open source" publication of a series of books. It was no surprise that Tim O'Reilly got the value of adding work to the commons (as O'Reilly press has with a bunch of titles donated to the public domain and a bunch of content to be licensed under a CC license: read here). But it is a real testament to Bruce's skill that he convinced Prentice Hall. Congratulations. I only hope we can help make the licenses part of the semantic web.

Posted on January 7, 2003 9:47 AM | | technorati

Comments (3)

January 7, 2003 3:51 PM John:

So why is Perens trying to fork the Creative Commons licenses?

January 8, 2003 6:48 AM Matt Brubeck:

Where or how is Perens forking the CC licenses? I see references only to the OPL 1.0, which predates the Creative Commons.

January 8, 2003 8:53 AM Lessig:

Indeed, OPL and OPENCONTENT are organization that inspired CC, and predate CC.

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