OSS Watch Relicensing: the case for Creative Commons

In this recently published article, Rowan Wilson discusses why we (OSS Watch) recently switched to releasing all of our content under a Creative Commons licence.

Like many organisations in the educational arena, generating content (reports, guides, manuals, etc) is a key aspect of our work and many of these are for wide distribution. Why hamper their distribution and reuse with a baroque licence (or indeed no licence at all), when there are clear, easily understood licences available to be used?

The report