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

Mike Linksvayer ml at creativecommons.org
Fri Dec 7 15:17:34 EST 2007


Evan Prodromou wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 09:20 -0600, Terry Hancock wrote:
> 
>> "Can upgrade to a later version of the license?"
>>
>>                       Original Work             Derivatives
>> CC-By-SA (2.0+)       NO                        YES
>> GPL(2+) by itself     NO                        NO
>> GPL(2+) w/statement   YES                       YES
> 
> You of course left off the last option:
> 
> CC-By-SA w/statement    YES                       YES
> 
> It might be nice if there were a way to specify this in the
> license-notification generator on creativecommons.org, as well as in the
> machine-readable code.

When would permission to distribute verbatim under later license 
actually help?

I'm wary of adding something to the interface that requires lots of 
explanation and little benefit.

Mike


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