Development of Creative Commons licenses

[David B Harris <dbharris AT eelf.ddts.net>]

On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 15:13:14 -0800
Mike Linksvayer <ml AT creativecommons.org> wrote:
> David B Harris wrote:
> > Can you guys ask a lawyer, and if it's true, get it fixed for the next
> > version? You're right that I can offer the appendix to the world under
> > the SA if I hold the copyright, but that's only a last resort - I'd
> > rather they hold it. Obviously there's no chance a new version will be
> > released in time for me to use it, but it's probably something worth
> > doing anyways.
> 
> You still don't have a problem.  Wiley can offer the appendix to the 
> world under SA, and as copyright owners they can still publish it an any 
> form they choose, collective work or not.

Right.

Still, for the "list of revisions", I think it's a good thing to ask.
Assuming a lawyer agrees with the interpretation, it's ruling out at
least some uses which I imagine most people releasing under the
ShareAlike would be perfectly happy with (and, indeed, which the
"human-readable" form of the license allows).

ie: specifically releasing a collective work with exactly one
ShareAlike-licensed part and exactly one other Work.

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