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[aka "CC"] A set of public licenses similar in spirit to copyleft or open source licenses but whose application is to works other than software, such as documentation, artwork, audio and video content. Creative commons represents the permeation of ideas which began in the free software movement into other areas of society.
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v. To advance, grow, or multiply inexorably. In hackish usage this verb has overtones of menace and silliness, evoking the creeping horrors of low-budget monster movies.
1. v. To advance, grow, or multiply inexorably. In hackish usage this verb has overtones of menace and silliness, evoking the creeping horrors of low-budget monster movies.
2. Someone who makes conspicuously unwanted sexual advances at a hacker conference.
3. Gradual increase in scope of a project without corresponding increase in budget or number of engineers. "On a fixed budget the project scope creeped into a crunch".
*** creeping elegance
n. Describes a tendency for parts of a design to become elegant past the point of diminishing return, something which often happens at the expense of the less interesting parts of the design, the schedule, and other things deemed important in the Real World. See also creeping featurism , second-system effect , tense.

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[aka "CC"] A set of public licenses similar in spirit to copyleft or open source licenses but whose application is to works other than software, such as documentation, artwork, audio and video content. Creative commons represents the permeation of ideas which began in the free software movement into other areas of society.
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v. To advance, grow, or multiply inexorably. In hackish usage this verb has overtones of menace and silliness, evoking the creeping horrors of low-budget monster movies.
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<p>1. v. To advance, grow, or multiply inexorably. In hackish usage this verb has overtones of menace and silliness, evoking the creeping horrors of low-budget monster movies. </p>
<p>2. Someone who makes conspicuously unwanted sexual advances at a hacker conference. </p>
<p>3. Gradual increase in scope of a project without corresponding increase in budget or number of engineers. "On a fixed budget the project scope creeped into a crunch".</p>
<H4>creeping elegance</H4>
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n. Describes a tendency for parts of a design to become elegant past the point of diminishing return, something which often happens at the expense of the less interesting parts of the design, the schedule, and other things deemed important in the Real World. See also creeping featurism , second-system effect , tense.

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creep
v. To advance, grow, or multiply inexorably. In hackish usage this verb has
1. v. To advance, grow, or multiply inexorably. In hackish usage this verb has
overtones of menace and silliness, evoking the creeping horrors of
low-budget monster movies.
2. Someone who makes conspicuously unwanted sexual advances at a hacker
conference.
3. Gradual increase in scope of a project without corresponding increase in
budget or number of engineers. "On a fixed budget the project scope creeped
into a crunch".