DISQUS

Duncan Drennan · 1 year ago

Paul, what are your thoughts on the use of Creative Commons licenses for things like software code, and open hardware? Typically licenses like the GPL have been applied to these. Is there any particular reason that the CC license has been applied mostly to things like music and writing?

pauljacobson · 1 year ago

I don't see any reason why you can't use a CC license to license software code. There are actually specific CC influenced licenses for software. Take a look at http://creativecommons.org/license/cc-gpl and http://creativecommons.org/license/cc-lgpl as examples.

For the most part, CC licenses are intended for more creative works so they do tend to fit very nicely with things like music and writing.