Richard Stallman supports Creative Commons. Do you?

In a post about the relicensing option from the GNU Free Documentation License to Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike, Richard Stallman writes:

If a wiki site exercises the relicensing option, that entails trusting Creative Commons rather than the Free Software Foundation regarding its future license changes. In theory one might consider this a matter of concern, but I think we can be confident that Creative Commons will follow its stated mission in the maintenance of its licenses. Millions of users trust Creative Commons for this, and I think we can do likewise.

Sounds like a strong endorsement from someone with demanding standards.

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And seems like an opportunity to shill for donations to Creative Commons. They are running their annual fundraiser right now, and for $50 ($25 for students) you can become a member of the CC Network, which allows you to sport a button on your web page to proudly show your support (and link to your CC Network profile page):

And, I think you get a USB-drive with CC songs from Jonathan Coulton. (Code Monkey like Tab, Mountain Dew, and Free Culture.)

And more.

And it’s tax-deductible!

To help Creative Commons in a non-monetary way, you can participate in a questionnaire about understanding non-commercial uses of content. I think it took me 10-15 minutes to complete. They need responses by December 7. (Update: Extended to December 14.)

And let’s not forget the FSF

Final pitch. If you’re in the giving mood: become an associate member of the Free Software Foundation. They’re also in the market for donations, and you get another attractive Badge of Freedom:

And it’s tax-deductible!

These two organizations do tons to promote free culture and free software. If these things are important to you, please consider giving what you can to help them continue in their missions.

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