Stephen Downes

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This is interesting, not simply because it explains Creative Commons for non-technical people, but because it changes the thrust of the message from what you can't do to what you can do. The danger, of course, is that in licenses that state what you can do, the default is restrictive, whereas in licenses that state what you can't do, the default is permissive. Related, and also from Saylor: the care to share bar. Maybe I should add one to my site.

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