Development of Creative Commons licenses

["Greg London" <email AT greglondon.com>]

Todd A. Jacobs said:
> On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 08:02:35AM -0500, drew Roberts wrote:
>
>> As an aside, if I license a work, CC BY-NC, what licenses can be put
>> on derivatives? CC BY-NC and CC BY-NC-ND?
>
> No, ANY license can be applied to a derivative of a BY-NC, as long as it
> retains attribution to the original author--and maybe even not that.

I'm not sure what you're saying here.
I can't take a CC-BY-NC work,
create a derivative,
and license the derivative CC-PD.

I can take a CC-BY-NC work, create a
derivative, and license that derivative
CC-BY-NC-SA (although I would probably
call it CC-BY-NC-S to drop the "Alike" part)

On any license except sharealike, you
can license a derivative the same or with
more restrictions as the original.
You cannot license a derivative with
fewer restrictions than the original
author gave out in the original license,
because you don't ahve those rights to
give out.

ShareAlike says you have to license
all derivatives the same as to original.
Derivatives can't be more restrictive,
and they can't be less restrictive.
(with the always present except of
attribution, oy)




> looked at the full text this morning, and am unsure that derivatives of
> derivatives require attribution to the original (first generation)
> author. Maybe someone else can clarify that aspect.
>
> I'm also a little confused by the phrase "You may not sublicense the
> Work." As far as I understand the license, there's nothing stopping
> derivative of a non-SA license from being relicensed BY, BY-SA, BY-NC,
> BY-ND, or some other combination as desired. As I read it, as long as
> you don't "sublicense" (relicense?) the *original* work, you can do what
> you like with subsequent licensing options.
>
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