[cc-community] "unported"?
Mike Linksvayer
ml at creativecommons.org
Tue Jun 10 13:59:44 EDT 2008
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 10:49 AM, Lucas Gonze <lucas.gonze at gmail.com> wrote:
> What's the benefit of using unported vs a specific jurisdiction? Does
> unported give more clarity across borders?
All of the licenses are supposed to work worldwide. The unported
version is necessary because many jurisdictions do not yet have ports
and nationalists in those jurisdictions might not want to use a
license that includes the name of another jurisdiction, and many other
people just don't grok the impact of jurisdiction ports so would
rather have something that doesn't even bring up the issue (frequent
feedback from people integrating license choice into their platforms).
It is a subtle issue that I really wish didn't have to surface, but at
the same time an important part of the CC infrastructure. For the
most part one shouldn't give more than a seconds' thought to unported
vs. port for your jurisdiction, because you won't really understand
the impact anyway (I don't really claim to myself). IANAL, etc.
Mike
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