Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Jim Cheetham <jim AT gonzul.net>]

Greg London wrote:
> With CC-NC, the author reserves the right to take
> an action that could harm the community contributions.
>
> With GNU-GPL, the author surrenders that right irrevocably.

No. With either license, a "big-name company" can approach the original 
author, who explicitly CAN re-license their own original work under 
whatever new terms they desire.

They just can't re-license the versions that have evolved under 
CC-NC/GPL/Whatever, because they do not hold copyright over 100% of that 
work.

> I don't have a problem with CC-NC. I've licensed some of my
> writing that way, and intend to do some more when I have the time.
> I'm doing it in the hopes of generating some interest in my
> writing so that people will buy my sci-fi book.

Right ... so when you become a big-name author (and hopefully you will), 
and a publisher wants to print a retrospective of all your works, will 
they be able to include the writings that were originally released 
CC-NC? You seem to be saying "No, because the retrospective will be a 
commercial work", whereas I think you should be saying "Not the version 
that was CC-NC, but I can license you another copy under different 
terms, because I am the author = I hold the copyright".

-jim