{"id":1125,"date":"2012-02-10T13:47:52","date_gmt":"2012-02-10T17:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/?p=1125"},"modified":"2012-02-10T13:47:52","modified_gmt":"2012-02-10T17:47:52","slug":"choosing-a-content-distribution-license","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=1125","title":{"rendered":"choosing a content distribution license"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the plethora of various\u00a0licenses\u00a0available for various types of content (writing, music, software, etc), it&#8217;s a highly daunting process to choose which one a creator or publisher wants to use.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cnx.org\">Connexions<\/a>\u00a0uses the <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/3.0\">Creative Commons Attribution License (v3.0)<\/a>. Some projects use the MIT or BSD license formats, others are public domain, some are [effectively] unlicensed. <a href=\"http:\/\/opensource.org\">Open Source<\/a> licenses abound.<\/p>\n<p>How does a body go through the process of choosing and sticking-to a license for published work? There doesn&#8217;t seem to be a good comparison of the features\/benefits\/protections for the lay person to parse &#8211; the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Comparison_of_free_software_licenses\">Wikipedia<\/a>\u00a0article seems aimed at legal types.<\/p>\n<p>What resources are available to the average Joe (or Warren) &#8211; like me?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the plethora of various\u00a0licenses\u00a0available for various types of content (writing, music, software, etc), it&#8217;s a highly daunting process to choose which one a creator or publisher wants to use. Connexions\u00a0uses the Creative Commons Attribution License (v3.0). Some projects use the MIT or BSD license formats, others are public domain, some are [effectively] unlicensed. Open &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=1125\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">choosing a content distribution license<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-1125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technical"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1125"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=1125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}