Development of Creative Commons licenses

[drew Roberts <zotz AT 100jamz.com>]

On Monday 28 March 2005 09:32 am, Peter Brink wrote:
> Branko Collin skrev:
> > Yes.
> >
> > A license may become void if the terms are not met, but I doubt the
> > reader will still have to fulfill those terms once the license has
> > become void.
>
> Ah, are you talking about how, or rather when, a user of a work licensed
> under an open source/content becomes bound by the terms of the license?
>
> Obviously you don't *have* to make use of the offer in, for example GPL.
> You are only assumed to make use of the offer if you do something for
> which you need the permission(s) license gives you. Publishing a
> derivative work is a good example. As long as you don't publish any
> derivative work the license remains unused.
>
> Or as the CC licenses preamble put it: "By exercising any rights to the
> work provided here, you accept and agree to be bound by the terms of
> this license. The licensor grants you the rights contained here in
> consideration of your acceptance of such terms and conditions."
>
>
> /Peter Brink


Yes, and it may be that by speaking of consideration, the CC licenses move 
into the realm of contract. I think I asked this question a few days ago.

However I cannot find the word consideration in the text of the GPL.

http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl.txt

all the best,

drew