Development of Creative Commons licenses

["Mike Linksvayer" <ml AT creativecommons.org>]

On Thu, 14 Aug 2003 22:08:24 -0400, "Evan Prodromou"
<evan AT wikitravel.org> said:
> So, how can I say that I trust Creative Commons to make good
> decisions about licenses, and to continue to improve them? Right now,
> I'm pretty sure that if a by-sa 1.1 came out, people couldn't build
> Derivative Works off of my work and use the new license.

ShareAlike's incompatibility with any other license, including future
versions of itself, is a problem with the 1.0 licenses.  A revision
should address "or any later version" and possibly offer more
compatibility with other copyleft-style licenses.  *-sa users will really
want to upgrade.  In this case, that's the cost of continuing to improve.
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  Mike Linksvayer
  http://creativecommons.org/learn/aboutus/people#21