[cc-community] CCplus Standard License Agreement?

Terry Hancock hancock at anansispaceworks.com
Tue Sep 16 08:59:26 EDT 2008


Richard Fairhurst wrote:
> Terry Hancock wrote:
>> YES. I would like to see a "Buy for the Commons" option: the author can
>> choose an amount for which they would be willing to release the work
>> By-SA for everyone. Once that's paid, the work is free.
> 
> Shouldn't be restricted to BY-SA, surely? CC-BY or CC0 should also be options.

Actually, that's a good idea.

It probably should be just ONE license PER work offered. But I agree
that it would be good if the author can choose which public license
option they want to sell (By-SA, By, CC0 is a good selection to provide).

It's better NOT to allow a single work to be offered under more than one
of these options. Otherwise, you'll wind up with CC0 buyers competing
with By-SA buyers or something like that. Then you have to think about
whether they should be allowed to combine their funds or what. Not a
good scenario!

I _can_ think of a good policy for that scenario, but it would be more
complex to implement, and I doubt it would be useful that often.

Better to set it up so that the author just picks one and that's what's
for sale.

The key thing here (for me) is that there is an option to buy a "public"
license, as well as a "private" license.

Cheers,
Terry

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Terry Hancock (hancock at AnansiSpaceworks.com)
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