[cc-licenses] Licensing option to free up content over time possible?
Henri Sivonen
hsivonen at iki.fi
Fri Dec 30 16:35:40 EST 2005
On Dec 30, 2005, at 18:41, Greg London wrote:
> It wouldn't help compatibility because it would still operate as
> two licenses. The first five years would be NonCommercial.
> After that, commercial use would be allowed. Any work that used
> this approach would start out incompatible with licenses that allow
> commercial use. having two licenses with a time-release mechanism
> to automatically handle the switch doesn't change this
> incompatibility.
Well, if the first license doesn't allow derivatives, there shouldn't
be any derivatives stuck in the NC realm.
IANAL, but:
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This Work is subject to the Creative Commons Attribution-
NonCommercial-NoDerivs license version 2.5.
Alternatively, on yyyy-mm-dd or thereafter, this Work may, at your
option, be used under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-
ShareAlike license version 2.5.
If you distribute a Derivative Work of this Work on yyyy-mm-dd or
thereafter, please delete these provisions and replace them with a
notice stating that the Derivative Work is licensed under the
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license version 2.5.
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Shouldn't that work?
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Henri Sivonen
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