[cc-licenses] Relicense 2.5 to 3.0

Evan Prodromou evan at prodromou.name
Sat Jul 7 09:44:43 EDT 2007


On Sat, 2007-07-07 at 08:05 +0300, Prodromos Tsiavos wrote:
> IMHO,  technically speaking you cannot relicense the whole wiki as (a) you 
> are most probably not the owner of the rights on the content in the first 
> place but have included a statement that all contributors agree that their 
> contributions are licensed under a CC_SA licence and (b) as Evan noted, in 
> order to move to v.3.0 (if you are not the licensor of the original work), 
> you will need to create a derivative work and licence it under CC v.3.0.

The easy way to fix this, for a wiki, is to get permission from
contributors to use their contributions under license Foo version X *and
any later versions*. A note on the submission page to this effect is
probably fine.

That should make automatic license upgrades later much easier.

-Evan

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Evan Prodromou - evan at prodromou.name - http://evan.prodromou.name/
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