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01 Dec, 2008

change.gov changed to Creative Commons license

Posted by: John In: Mozilla| politics

In a fantastically great development, change.gov changed its license to a Creative Commons by Attribution license. It’s a really great thing to see, and an important detail to get right for an administration that’s so far both incredibly ambitious and incredibly overloaded with other important topics.

3 Responses to "change.gov changed to Creative Commons license"

1 | David Bolton

December 1st, 2008 at 10:22 pm

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Why not public domain?

2 | A Sky si aumenta l’IVA e Obama cambia la licenza del suo sito « …Anyway the wind blows…

December 2nd, 2008 at 9:41 am

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[...] mentre in Italia si chiudono i Blog, ecco che in Amerca, Barack Obama cambia la licenza di Change.gov in Creative Commons, riconoscendo il potere che ha Internet, e che hanno [...]

3 | John O’Duinn’s Soapbox » “Yesterday, December 7th…”

December 8th, 2008 at 4:13 pm

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[...] public, not just owned by just a different private commercial company. The work that Mitchell and John Lilly have been doing here with Creative Commons licensing is literally history in the [...]


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