License revisions

Mike Linksvayer ml at creativecommons.org
Tue Jan 27 16:30:07 EST 2004


Evan Prodromou wrote:
> So, I'd like to find out what plans there are to handle the proposed
> revisions to the CC licenses. Will there be any distinction made
> between rights defined in the 1.0 and 2.0 versions of the licenses?
> 
> As far as I can tell, at least the right of ShareAlike and Attribution
> have been changed -- perhaps subtly, but changed. Would it be
> reasonable to define new resource URLs for the new rights?

The new licenses will have new URLs, e.g.,
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/

I'm not planning on new resource URLs for license characteristics.  The 
characteristics expressed in metadata are not intended to be 
fine-grained, rather serving as a rough guide to the permissions, 
prohibitions, and requirements associated with a license.

See also http://creativecommons.org/technology/metadata/why

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   Mike Linksvayer
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