[cc-licenses] Is something like "version 3.0 or any later version" allowed?
Mike Linksvayer
ml at creativecommons.org
Sun Aug 26 19:10:43 EDT 2007
Terry Hancock wrote:
> Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves wrote:
>> Recently, an outsider proposed that it was perhaps better if we
>> required that contributions be under "Creative Commons Attribution
>> License 3.0 or any later version published by Creative Commons".
>> Something akin to what some GPLv2 projects do.
>
> It's probably unnecessary -- the CC licenses already allow for
> derivatives to fall under future licenses.
Licenses version 2.0 and greater including the ShareAlike term do. It
isn't relevant for non-SA licenses, which don't mandate release of
derivatives under a particular license.
> IANAL, etc.
Me too.
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