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  • From: Evan Prodromou <evan AT prodromou.name>
  • To: Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [cc-licenses] Relicense 2.5 to 3.0
  • Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2007 09:44:43 -0400

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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