[cc-licenses] ShareAlike and version compatibility

rob at robmyers.org rob at robmyers.org
Thu Apr 13 06:29:26 EDT 2006


Quoting drew Roberts <zotz at 100jamz.com>:

> On Thursday 13 April 2006 03:29 am, Karl Ebener wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> i fully support this interpretation. In the preambular, it says:
>> THE WORK (AS DEFINED BELOW) IS PROVIDED UNDER THE TERMS OF THIS CREATIVE
>> COMMONS PUBLIC LICENSE ("CCPL" OR "LICENSE").
>>
>> This means, that there is a contract being conducted.
>
> Are you speaking for Creative Commons here? If not, could a CC rep 
> please give
> CC's take on this? I know that the GPL people do not believe that the GPL is
> a contract, but merely a license.icenses

Please bear in mind that even if a CC license is considered a contract in
Germany (I don't know whether it would be or not) European and American 
law may
differ on this point.

(IANAL, IANCC).

- Rob.






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