[cc-community] "unported"?
Nathan Yergler
nathan at creativecommons.org
Tue Jun 10 14:22:27 EDT 2008
Precisely.
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 11:16 AM, Lucas Gonze <lucas.gonze at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ok, so my conclusion is that I should either pick my own jurisdiction
> or unported and not worry about it from there.
>
> Thanks, all.
>
> On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 10:59 AM, Mike Linksvayer
> <ml at creativecommons.org> wrote:
>> 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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