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I’ve been reading the Creative Commons pages for a couple of weeks now and have mulled over switching from my little copyright statement to one of their licenses. After much deliberation, I’ve decided to go with an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License, and you will therefore notice that I’ve removed the copyright statement from most, if not all of these pages. Why the deliberation? Well, I really like what the people over at the Creative Commons have done, and it took me a while to decide what type of license to go with. Attribution-Non-Commercial-ShareAlike is a whole mouthful to say that anyone can use anything on these pages, as long as they attribute it to me; commercial use of anything here is prohibited, unless I say it’s OK; and my stuff can be taken and changed around, but any derivative should also be licenced as Attribution-Non-Commerical-ShareAlike. If you’re thinking it’s hardly worth all the effort, you’d be wrong. I think licenses like these make a whole bunch of sense, and they should go a long way in making the Web what it should be, even though there will always be a few unscrupulous, pilferring, webkleptos no matter what your site’s fine print threatens. Choosing to license all the same is my little attempt at keeping alive the glimmering flame of hope for A Better Web.