[cc-licenses] Problem with Share-Alike

Mike Linksvayer ml at creativecommons.org
Wed Jun 7 15:59:12 EDT 2006


On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 14:49 -0500, Ben McLean wrote:
> What if I, the creator of a work, want one particular liscense for
> myself but want to allow people who modify my work to be able to
> release their modifications ONLY under a specific liscense that is
> different from mine THAT I SPECIFY or under EITHER the same as mine
> BUT NOT a particular liscense? The Share-Alike option seems too
> simplistic to handle these kinds of situations.
> 
> As an example of this, suppose that I DON'T want my original work to
> have the Non-Commercial condition, but I want to only allow derivative
> works that DO have the Non-Commercial condition. Wouldn't copyright
> law allow for such a liscense?


You could dual license under BY-ND and BY-NC[-SA].

I suspect others here are going to suggest you consider BY-SA again,
which effectively restricts many commercial modifications (any where the
modifier is not willing to release under BY-SA).

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