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  • From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen AT iki.fi>
  • To: Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [cc-licenses] Licensing option to free up content over time possible?
  • Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 23:35:40 +0200

On Dec 30, 2005, at 18:41, Greg London wrote:

It wouldn't help compatibility because it would still operate as
two licenses. The first five years would be NonCommercial.
After that, commercial use would be allowed. Any work that used
this approach would start out incompatible with licenses that allow
commercial use. having two licenses with a time-release mechanism
to automatically handle the switch doesn't change this incompatibility.

Well, if the first license doesn't allow derivatives, there shouldn't be any derivatives stuck in the NC realm.

IANAL, but:

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This Work is subject to the Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial-NoDerivs license version 2.5.

Alternatively, on yyyy-mm-dd or thereafter, this Work may, at your option, be used under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution- ShareAlike license version 2.5.

If you distribute a Derivative Work of this Work on yyyy-mm-dd or thereafter, please delete these provisions and replace them with a notice stating that the Derivative Work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license version 2.5.
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Shouldn't that work?

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Henri Sivonen
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