Licensing is the suck!

As I recently wrote the obvious, “licensing is legal, and legal things are complex”. I should have wrote, licensing is the suck!

When ever I start thinking about licensing and it being the suck, I think to Lawrence Lessig’s keynote presentation at the annual Open Source Convention (OSCON) made on July 24, 2002. My favorite part is:

  • Creativity and innovation always builds on the past.
  • The past always tries to control the creativity that builds upon it.
  • Free societies enable the future by limiting this power of the past.
  • Ours is less and less a free society.

O’Reilly Network — Free Culture: Lawrence Lessig Keynote from OSCON 2002

I highly recommend reading, hearing, or viewing the whole talk about a lot more than licensing that Lessig has given more than 100 times. It speaks to why licensing is the suck and presents some of the largest issues facing civilization today.

One Comment

  1. Posted July 27, 2006 at 8:45 pm | Permalink

    Preach it! I remember watching the flash movie with my wife. Very powerful.

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