Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Rob Myers <robmyers AT mac.com>]

On 6 Mar 2005, at 20:40, Greg London wrote:

> (* by "ShareAlike", I mean everyone but me, the author.)

But this is how the CC modules work. They are requirements placed on 
downstream users in return for licensing the work. I see the problem 
that you have identified, that the license doesn't affect the licensor, 
but this is true even of the mighty GPL. I have trouble with the idea 
of a self-binding license, possibly the closest I can think of is 
assigning one's copyright to the FSF.

Forking one's own work is presumably a freedom. But a CC license 
guarantees that the work that is licensed at any one moment cannot be 
un-licensed. And SA does affect the original licensor if they wish to 
use downstream work. This isn't a "what's mine is mine, what's yours is 
mine" license. I'm not defending NC in absolute terms, simply defending 
the right of individuals to exercise their freedom choose it as the 
least worst fit to what they wish to achieve socially or ideologically, 
even if I personally wish they wouldn't choose it.

- Rob.