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  • From: Evan Prodromou <evan AT wikitravel.org>
  • To: Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: contribution from others, granting special permission
  • Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 16:13:09 -0500

>>>>> "e" == email <email AT greglondon.com> writes:

e> The point of ShareAlike or CopyLeft, for software at least, is
e> so that other people can contribute bug fixes and you can roll
e> them into your code.

Well, that's one advantage, at least. Maybe not the _entire_ point.

e> But once you do this, you would have to get permission from
e> every contributer if you wanted to relicense the work for
e> someone.

Another option is that you could ask contributors to assign
copyright to you.

e> If it is true, it seems that the Creative Common website
e> doesn't really point this out to people interested in using
e> their licenses because I didn't find it anywhere.

God bless the people who did those great movies and cartoons. They
rock and roll. However, they're kind of keyed to the simplest possible
licensing scenarios -- one creator makes one version of one work. They
don't really go into the intricacies of intertwingled networks of
Derivative Works very well. But, as introductions, that may not be the
best idea, anyways.

~ESP

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Evan Prodromou <evan AT wikitravel.org>
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