Editing Creative Commons (section)

===CC license proliferation===
According to [[Mako Hill]], Creative Commons has established a range of licenses tailored to meet the different protection interests of authors of creative works, rather than forcing a single forced standard as a "base level of freedom" that all Creative Commons licenses must meet, and with which all licensors and users must comply. "By failing to take any firm ethical position and draw any line in the sand, CC is a missed opportunity. ...CC has replaced what could have been a call for a world where 'essential rights are unreservable' with the relatively hollow call for 'some rights reserved.{{' "}} He also argued that Creative Commons enables [[license proliferation]], by providing multiple licenses that are [[license compatibility|incompatible]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://mako.cc/writing/toward_a_standard_of_freedom.html|title=Towards a Standard of Freedom: Creative Commons and the Free Software Movement|last=Hill|first=Benjamin Mako|date=July 29, 2005|access-date=October 14, 2005|archive-date=June 15, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120615143208/http://mako.cc/writing/toward_a_standard_of_freedom.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

The Creative Commons website states, "Since each of the six CC licenses functions differently, resources placed under different licenses may not necessarily be combined with one another without violating the license terms."<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://learn.creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/cclearn-explanations-cc-license-compatability.pdf|title=Remixing OER: A guide to License Compatibility|journal=CC Learn Explanations|publisher=Creative Commons|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091025045901/http://learn.creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/cclearn-explanations-cc-license-compatability.pdf|archive-date=October 25, 2009|access-date=November 29, 2010}}</ref> Works licensed under incompatible licenses may not be recombined in a [[derivative work]] without obtaining permission from the copyright owner.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://wiki.creativecommons.org/FAQ#Can_I_combine_two_different_Creative_Commons_licensed_works.3F_Can_I_combine_a_Creative_Commons_licensed_work_with_another_non-CC_licensed_work.3F|title=Can I combine two different Creative Commons licensed works? Can I combine a Creative Commons licensed work with another non-CC licensed work?|work=FAQ|publisher=Creative Commons|access-date=September 16, 2009|archive-date=November 27, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101127205528/http://wiki.creativecommons.org/FAQ#Can_I_combine_two_different_Creative_Commons_licensed_works.3F_Can_I_combine_a_Creative_Commons_licensed_work_with_another_non-CC_licensed_work.3F|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/|title=Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 3.0 Unported|publisher=Creative Commons|access-date=November 18, 2009|archive-date=February 22, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110222170930/http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/|title=Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 Unported|publisher=Creative Commons|access-date=November 18, 2009|archive-date=February 15, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180215173358/https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/|url-status=live}}</ref>

[[Richard Stallman]] of the [[Free Software Foundation]] stated in 2005 that he could not support Creative Commons as an activity because "it adopted some additional licenses which do not give everyone that minimum freedom", that freedom being "the freedom to share, noncommercially, any published work".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/entry-20050920.html|title=Fireworks in Montreal|last=Stallman|first=Richard M.|publisher=FSF Blogs|access-date=November 18, 2009|archive-date=May 13, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100513073049/http://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/entry-20050920.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Those licenses have since been retired by Creative Commons.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://creativecommons.org/retiredlicenses|title=Retired Legal Tools|publisher=Creative Commons|access-date=April 26, 2021|archive-date=November 14, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171114000153/https://creativecommons.org/retiredlicenses|url-status=live}}</ref>