December 1, 2008 – 7:15 pm

change.gov changed to Creative Commons license

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.

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    David Bolton
    Posted December 1, 2008 at 10:22 pm | Permalink

    Why not public domain?

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