[cc-licenses] Version 3.0 — It's Happening & With BY-SA Compatibility Language Too
Terry Hancock
hancock at anansispaceworks.com
Sun Feb 11 20:44:10 EST 2007
drew Roberts wrote:
> On Saturday 10 February 2007 12:39 am, Terry Hancock wrote:
>>I would hope that, in the cases where CC decides to post a license as
>>"compatible", that there is a reciprocal statement being made by the
>>parties controlling that other license.
>
> I thought I just read that in the draft Mia posted.
>
>>From Definitions:
>
> (b) "Creative Commons Compatible License" means a license that is listed at
> http://creativecommons.org/compatiblelicenses that: (i) has been approved
> by Creative Commons as being essentially equivalent to this License,
> including without limitation because that license contains terms that have
> the same purpose, meaning and effect as the License Elements of this
> License; and, (ii) explicitly permits the relicensing of derivatives of
> works
> made available under that license under this License.
>
> See (ii)? Now presumably (ii) is redundant in the license itself except as a
> safeguard? Surely CC will not list it as approved if it does not do so. Or is
> CC going to play games with us and put licenses there as approved but we
> can't actually use them because they don't meet (ii)?
Yep, I missed that detail. Reciprocity is required. That's a good thing.
Much of what I said is obsoleted by that, sorry. ;-)
Truthfully in most cases where you'd need the ability to relicense to
GPL, you aren't going to have any trouble getting permission to do so.
Cheers,
Terry
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Anansi Spaceworks http://www.AnansiSpaceworks.com
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