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There are several challenges here. One challenge is the name "Commons" is very misleading. It's not creating a commons, and it's also confusingly similar to t
by dwheeler 8y ago
There are several challenges here.
One challenge is the name "Commons" is very misleading. It's not creating a commons, and it's also confusingly similar to the term "Creative Commons" which has been around for a really long time.
Also, the Commons website says that the Commons license is not OSS "at least not by the official definition set forth by the OSD". Yet that is the official generally-accepted definition.
- dragonwriter 8y ago> One challenge is the name "Commons" is very misleading. It's not creating a commons “Commons” isn't the thing the clause creates, it's the problem it aims to solve. Naming contract or license clauses after the problem they address is not uncommon.
- binomialxenon 8y agoIt would be terrible PR to call this the "Anti- Commons Clause", but it would indeed be accurate.
- licyeus 8y agoThis is humorously illustrated in Antirez's blog post on this matter[1]: "We at Redis Labs are sorry for the confusion generated by the Creative Common page". They really should've run the name by someone familiar with the copyright landscape. [1] http://antirez.com/news/120 http://antirez.com/news/120