Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Rob Myers <robmyers AT mac.com>]

On 8 Feb 2004, at 13:57, email AT greglondon.com wrote:

> On Sat, 07 Feb 2004 13:14:38 -0500, Evan Prodromou wrote:
> > The way the 2.0 licenses put it, you can combine two works under SA
> > licenses, accumulating all the license stipulations for both. So if
> > you've got one work that's by-sa, and another that's by-nc, the
> > resulting work is by-sa-nc.

Which section of the license on the web site says this?????? If this 
argument is based on 4b,it's a misreading and 4b needs to be made less 
ambiguous...

> > The problem with this is that it goes against the wishes of the
> > original licensors. Probably the most troubling is that you can take
> > a Work available for everyone to use, and mix it with an *-sa-nc-*
> > work, and the result is not available for everyone to use.

I agree. But which section of the license says this?

> > The argument made so far is that it's more important to make
> > "remixing" works easy than it is to respect the wishes of the original
> > licensors. I, for one, find that kind of hard to swallow, and probably
> > self-defeating.

Yes that would be an entirely bogus argument.

> And the ShareAlike 2.0 is effectively saying that its OK to take
> works out of the public commons and fence it off into a flea market
> section.

Is it? Where? Is there a newer version than the one on the site?

- Rob.