[cc-community] An easy way to notify licensors about new license versions

drew Roberts zotz at 100jamz.com
Thu Dec 6 07:59:26 EST 2007


On Thursday 06 December 2007 00:08:40 Evan Prodromou wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 22:23 -0500, Evan Prodromou wrote:
> > 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.
>
> I might better say, "But you can't take a work licensed under
> Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 (say) and re-distribute it _verbatim_ as if
> it were licensed under Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0."

Hmmm. I am generally mostly concerned with BY-SA and so don't remember if I 
picked up that the non-SA licenses did not have the later version language.

A derivative of a BY work could also be released under a later version BY or 
BY-SA right?

So is the lack a bug or a feature?

Benefits? Drawbacks? (Of not having the later version for the work itself.)

Is it immaterial?

Benefit: The work is protected for the danger of CC putting out a flawed later 
version. (On purpose or by mistake.)

Drawback: If a flaw is discovered in an earlier version, you cannot use the 
work under the fixed newer version. (I know the creator could re-license, but 
there are things which could prevent this even if the creator would have 
wanted it.)

>
> -Evan

all the best,

drew


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