[cc-licenses] ShareAlike and version compatibility

Mia Garlick mia at creativecommons.org
Wed Apr 12 20:51:07 EDT 2006


i interpret "this license" to mean this particular license.

On Apr 12, 2006, at 5:30 PM, Evan Prodromou wrote:

> This is something of a wishful thinking question.
>
> Within the text of the CCPL, there are several references to "this  
> License": <>
> You may distribute, publicly display, publicly perform, or publicly  
> digitally perform the Work only under the terms of this License, ...
> You must include a copy of, or the Uniform Resource Identifier for,  
> this License with every copy or phonorecord of the Work You  
> distribute [...]
> You may distribute, publicly display, publicly perform, or publicly  
> digitally perform a Derivative Work only under the terms of this  
> License, a later version of this License with the same License  
> Elements as this License, [...] I wonder: would it be at all  
> reasonable to consider "this License" to be, say, the Attribution- 
> ShareAlike license in any of its versions? That is, when the  
> license text says "this license", it'd mean an object that has gone  
> through several revisions over the last few years?
>
> I ask because this interpretation would make the different versions  
> of ShareAlike licenses with the same license elements mutually  
> compatible. You could distribute a by-sa 1.0 work under the terms  
> of the 2.5 license, or vice versa. That'd be a help for projects  
> where license upgrades are uncomfortable (for example, wikis).
>
> Anyways, I was optimistic about the idea until I read the last  
> bullet point above; referring to "a later version of this License"  
> seems to make it clear that "this License" means "this particular  
> version".
>
> ~Evan
>
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> Evan Prodromou <evan at prodromou.name>
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