November 21, 2005 · Lessig
This is still not the first Microsoft site licensed under a CC license, but it was very cool to read this from Ray Ozzie in his blog entry announcing Microsoft’s latest CC-licensed spec, Simple Sharing Extension: Writes Ray: “I’m very pleased that Microsoft is supporting the Creative Commons approach ….”
Me2.
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Actually, Microsoft first used the CC license a while back for the RSS/SLX spec document:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/windowsvista/building/rss/simplefeedextensions/
Whenever I see a spec being offered under some kind of license, I can’t help but wonder whether the publisher thinks it’s offering rights to the document that describes the format, or rights to the format itself.
Should formats be owned? It’s a question I hope Mr. Lessig will address someday.