the growing commons

Posted on January 7, 2003 by Lessig

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.

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3 Responses to the growing commons

  1. John says:
    January 7, 2003 at 3:51 pm

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

  2. Matt Brubeck says:
    January 8, 2003 at 6:48 am

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

  3. Lessig says:
    January 8, 2003 at 8:53 am

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

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