[cc-community] An easy way to notify licensors about new license versions
Evan Prodromou
evan at prodromou.name
Wed Dec 5 22:23:19 EST 2007
On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 15:51 -0500, Gavin Baker wrote:
> Although 2.0+ licenses can be up-versioned by the user, [...]
I don't think that's true, actually (at least if by "user" you mean
"licensee"). There isn't, as far as I know, an "or any later version"
clause in any of the Creative Commons licenses, 1.x, 2.x, or 3.x.
Licensors can, of course, choose to allow that themselves, but I don't
think it's automatic just by using a CC license.
Derivatives of *-ShareAlike-* licensed works can be licensed under later
versions of the same license. But you can't take a work licensed under
Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 (say) and re-distribute it as if it were
licensed under Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0.
-Evan
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