[cc-licenses] New Generic and ports
Terry Hancock
hancock at anansispaceworks.com
Sat Oct 7 15:17:49 EDT 2006
drew Roberts wrote:
> OK, here is the below part I mentioned above. So, I make a BY-SA work
> and release it. (I am actually in the Bahamas, but for the sake of
> this, let's pretend I am in the US.) Someone makes a big time
> adaptation of it. That someone is a German living in Germany.
>
> Now, let's put these two things together. There is some sort of
> dispute. According to the first part, the German court (would it end
> up in the German court?) would use the german version of the contract
> and according to the second part they would base their interpretation
> of the contract on the will of the licensor. (Are you sure you don't
> mean on the understanding of what the licensor thought he was doing?)
> That would be me who doesn't understand a word of German (well,
> perhaps a few words) and who doesn't know anything about German law.
That would be you, who allowed derivatives of your work to be
distributed under the German version of the By-SA license (i.e. you've
agreed to this in the English version of the By-SA). Of course, we know
that you are trusting CC to have made the two licenses equivalent.
Cheers,
Terry
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