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  • From: "Paul Norman" <penorman AT mac.com>
  • To: "'Development of Creative Commons licenses'" <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [cc-licenses] Compatibility open issue #3: one-way compatibility
  • Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 09:34:44 -0700

> Sent: Monday, May 05, 2014 7:39 PM
> Subject: Re: [cc-licenses] Compatibility open issue #3: one-way
> compatibility

> Also each new CC license is one-way compatible with previous versions
> of the same license.
> One-way compatibility is great if you're upgrading the license to a new one
> and deprecating the old one.

The upgrade clause in the SA licenses only. The attribution requirements of
CC BY 4.0 do not meet the onerous requirements of CC BY 2.0, i.e. someone can
meet
4.0 without meeting 2.0.





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