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  • From: Rob Myers <rob AT robmyers.org>
  • 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, 06 May 2014 17:38:38 -0700

On 04/05/14 09:42 PM, Anthony wrote:
> One-way compatibility is a great way to kill a license. Anyone can fork
> a work and license the fork under the new license. This forces the
> original project to either switch to the new license, or to not
> incorporate the changes.

It certainly doesn't lead to a less fragmented commons. And if a
derivative of my work cannot be recombined with it under the original
license when I have a valid concern about the alternative license then
that is a problem.

A thought:

Should CC just deprecate BY-SA and declare the GPL to be version 5?

If not, why not? Which of the objectives for compatibility would not be
achieved by this?

- Rob.





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