Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Daniel Carrera <dcarrera AT math.umd.edu>]

Henri Sivonen wrote:

> It seems to me the localized versions of BY-SA are all incompatible in 
> the sense that you cannot combine a work under eg. the Finnish BY-SA 
> license and a work under the Dutch BY-SA license.

One second... are you sure there is such a thing as localized versions of CC 
licenses? I'm looking for them and I can't find them. Instead, what I can 
find is 
localized versions of the Commons Deed. But that's not the license. It is 
merely a 
human-readable summary of the license.

If you go to other languages, and click on the legal code link, you always 
arrive 
at the same license (in English).


> It seems to me that works licensed under SA 1.0 or BY-SA 1.0 are 
> incompatible with works licensed under BY-SA 2.0. Is it so?

I'm interested to know the answer to this question also. One of the virtues 
that 
I've seen in CC is the ability to mix.

> What happens to the works licensed under the 2.0 licenses if/when CC 
> releases new revisions of licenses?

I'm just starting a project using the BY license. Our copyright notice says:

   You can distribute it and/or modify it under the terms of ... the
   Creative Commons Attribution License, version 2.0 or later 
   http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/

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