Re: Fwd: Introducing flexible copyright licensing

Looks like similar to the Collaborative Source Initiative: 
http://www.collaborativesource.org or to the Progressive License one: 
http://softdevelcoop.org/

Cheers,
Stéphane

At 15:38 12/04/2005, Marshall W. Van Alstyne wrote:
>This is a cross post from Creative Commons last July in response to 
>"Charging the Charger" topic thread here on FSB. < see previous post>
>
>MVA
>
>-----------------------
>
>Greetings, I'd like to announce the formation of a new discussion
>group on
>Creative Commons.
>
>The goal is to develop a new form of hybrid commercial / non-commercial
>license for various kinds of intellectual property with particular
>emphasis
>on software.  We hope to combine the best of open source and
>proprietary
>models.  In so doing, we'll explore questions like:
>
>          Can we create the
>greatest social welfare and the greatest
>innovation?
>          Can we simultaneously
>benefit businesses, developers, and end
>users over the long run?
>          Can we build models of
>the process of software growth and diffusion?
>
>This group will represent a forum for lively discussion and will be
>charged
>with creating such a license.  More than just a set of interesting
>debates,
>we'll also try to build models of the processes of software growth and
>diffusion.  Thus the process of license design itself should become
>a kind
>of recursive open science.
>
>To get things started, we've placed a 1 page Overview of a proposal and a
>longer Précis or description of economic tradeoffs at <
><
>http://creativecommons.org/discuss#commonwealth
> >
>http://creativecommons.org/discuss#commonwealth
>  >. The new topic will be the "creative commonwealth"
>to capture the idea
>that creative innovation, sharing, and property rights need not be
>mutually
>exclusive.  It will be reachable at
><http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/cc-bizcom>cc-bizcom
>at lists.ibiblio.org .   We look
>forward to hearing from you.
>
>Sincerely,
>Marshall Van Alstyne
>Associate Professor of Information Economics, Boston University
>Visiting Associate Professor MIT Center for E-Business
>Co-chair of Licensing Working Group, Open Process Handbook Initiative
>
>
>



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