[cc-community] An easy way to notify licensors about new license versions
Gavin Baker
gavin at gavinbaker.com
Thu Dec 6 03:01:20 EST 2007
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Evan Prodromou wrote:
> 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.
By Jove, I think he's right. I only find the "later versions" clause in
relation to derivatives under the Share Alike licenses. Sorry for
perpetuating a myth!
Can someone point me to the reasoning for this? The obvious comparison
is the GPL, which of course does have a "later versions" clause.
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Gavin Baker
http://www.gavinbaker.com/
gavin at gavinbaker.com
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