Open Publication License
So in terms of high level structure, the OPL was here about five years before CC. ... Actually, the [OCL and OPL] licenses weren’t that great, seeing as I am not a lawyer, and neither was anyone else involved in the creation of the license. The concept was right, and the execution was “good enough,” but Creative Commons (with its excellent lawyers and law school students) created a better legal instrument. As I said on the opencontent.org homepage on Monday June 30, 2003: 'My main goal in beginning OpenContent back in the Spring of 1998 was to evangelize a way of thinking about sharing materials, especially those that are useful for supporting education. ...
また、Open Publication License には、二次的著作物の配布を制限したり、作品のコピーまたは二次的著作物の配布を認める任意条項が存在するが、Open Content License では、営利目的の複製を完全に禁止している。
2003年6月、Open Content Project の創設者であるデビッド・A・ワイリーは、法律家と共同で考案されたクリエイティブ・コモンズ・ライセンスは、Open Content Project が策定したライセンスよりもずっと「法廷での争いにより有効だと考えられる」と表明した。また、彼はこれを理由として、クリエイティブ・コモンズに参加することとし、もう一方の Open Content Project を閉鎖すると発表した。そして、Open Content Project ライセンスの利用を考えているユーザーにとっては、クリエイティブ・コモンズ・ライセンスを利用する方がずっと良いのだということを発表した。
The OPL was truly innovative in that, in addition to requiring citation of the original author as source, it contained two license options which authors could choose to invoke: one restricts users’ abilities to creative derivative works, while the second restricts users’ abilities to make certain commercial uses of the material. The student of open content licensing will recognize that these are exactly the options that Creative Commons now employs. What may be forgotten is that in version 1.0 of the Creative Commons licenses, Attribution was actually included in the licenses only as an option. In version 2.0 of the CC licenses (May 24, 2004) attribution was standard on every license, and there were two licenses options: one regarding derivative works, and one regarding commercial use.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Wiley, David (2007年5月6日). “About the Open Publication License”. iterating toward openness. 2018年10月19日閲覧。 “[The] Open Content License (July 14, 1998), which was replaced by the Open Publication License (June 8, 1999), were the first licenses to bring the ideals of open source software to the world of content. The OCL predates the GFDL (Nov 2002) and Creative Commons (Dec 2002) by over four years, while the improved OPL predates both by over three years. The OCL was developed primarily by me... The improved OPL was written primarily by Eric Raymond after discussions with me, Tim O’Reilly, and others...