[cc-community] Not sure does cc apply to a copy or 'original' work

drew Roberts zotz at 100jamz.com
Sun Jun 1 09:01:14 EDT 2008


On Saturday 31 May 2008 18:19:55 Evan Prodromou wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-05-31 at 12:54 -0400, Fred Benenson wrote:
> > you can never restrict the rights of a work farther by dual (or tri-?)
> > licensing it, you can only make it more liberal.
>
> You'll need to explain and justify this axiom, because it sounds
> incorrect to me. For example, I could license a work either under the
> by-sa or the GFDL. It would be hard to say which is more "liberal";
> they're equivalent in purpose although small details make them
> incompatible.

I think what might be the point of the statement is that you can't force a 
person to use the more restrictive license and not the less restrictive 
one. ???
>
> And, yes, "tri-licensing" happens quite a bit, at least in Wikimedia
> land. On the Open Source front, Mozilla code (e.g. Firefox) is all
> tri-licensed:
>
> http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/
>
> -Evan

all the best,

drew


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