Creative Commons on the GPL and LGPL

Wed Mar 24 2004 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

It's funny what Google can tell you... I was googling for info about dynamic and static library linking with the LGPL, and I came across Creative Commons versions of both the GNU General Public License (GPL) and the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL). For reference, here is the actual text of the GPL and LGPL from the Free Software Foundation. However, these don't seem to be licenses you can choose via the Creative Commons "Choose a license" wizard... yet.

Does this mean that software is in the pipes for Creative Commons? I couldn't find the BSD license by guessing the URL or via Google... does the Creative Commons plan on not offering a BSD-style license (where subsequent works can be closed/proprietized)?

Oh, by the way... here's a great explanation of dynamic vs. static linking and the LGPL.

Posted by joebeone at Marzo 24, 2004 09:31 AM