Development of Creative Commons licenses

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Keith Coleman said:
> some odd interactions between licenses.
>
> Let's say I combine a worked issued under a Sampling
> license with a work issued under a BY-NC-SA v2 license.

Creative Commons has a number of incompatible licenses.
ShareAlike cannot play with any of the more restrictive
licenses, such as Sampling, NonCommercial, EducationOnly,
NoDerivatives, etc.

The only CC license that ShareAlike can play with is
CC-PublicDomain. All other licenses are too restrictive.

You cannot combine works under these incompatible
licenses. "but you can contact the author and get
permision" some might argue. Which is true, but if the
author was going to give permission anyway, just put it in
the license and save everyone the pain in the arse you're
causing by using a restrictive license.

If you wish to create works to place in a Gift Economy,
the only license that does that is ShareAlike or Copyleft
style licenses.

All other licenses are the product of either good but
misguided intentions or the author's ego refusing to
release the work as a true gift.

http://www.greglondon.com/dtgd/pdf/draftingthegiftdomain.pdf