Licensing
Today, Creative Commons launched, so I have switched licenses for this weblog and The Sweden Weblog. Here, there’s basically no change: everything is allowed as long as you mention my name; but for the Sweden Weblog, I chose to dedicate all posts to the public domain – because it felt like the right thing to do.
This project I knew of, and I have meant to switch license ever since I first learned about it. However, they unveiled another project today: Founders’ Copyright – a license that is in harmony with the first American copyright law, created in 1790, which “granted authors a monopoly right over their creations for 14 years”, after which they enter the public domain. O’Reilly will be the first to adopt this.