One thing I am noticing is that people are starting to use
NC for software.
There was an example of this at the iCommons summit where
someone had released
some abandoneware under NC. Thus defeating the point of
abandonware, which is
to encourage the ongoing availability of work that will not
be developed
further.
More often though I'm seeing JavaScript and PHP scripts
being released as NC.
The CMS theme question on the license list just now is an
example of this. The
reasons for NC-ing scripts are worse than for NC-ing almost
any other kind of
software. Scripts are small, easily re-used and will return
great value to the
author if they are incorporated in derivative works that the
author can re-use
to make money. They may look more like text than other forms
of code, but they
are still software.
Non-commercial, educational, etc. licenses for software lost
out to actually
free licenses years ago. It's just a little frustrating to
see people mis-using
an NC content license on software in this way.
/rant.
I suppose the thing I'd like to say to CC is please can you
guys re-emphasise
that the licenses are not for software. 
- Rob.
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