Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Evan Prodromou <evan AT bad.dynu.ca>]

On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 14:05 -0500, Greg London wrote:
> The alternative is that a bigwiki project can take an
> attribution-sharealike work by "Alice", roll it into
> the BigWiki, change attribution to BigWiki, and remove
> Alice's attribution.  Which then becomes an incentive
> for everyone to use the Wiki license so they can drop
> everyone else's attribution information.
> No. Never mind that. bad idea.
I don't think it's possible -- the section on attribution in Wiki 0.5 seems to require consent of the licensor.

Anyways, yeah, I don't think it's that big a deal. I think the biggest problem is that we've got two things called "Attribution", and they're interchangeable. I just want to make sure that CC is doing this with both eyes opened. The fact that absolutely nothing else in the license was changed makes me think that nobody went over Wiki 0.5 very carefully at all -- like, say, reading it all the way through -- before launching it.

~Evan

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Evan Prodromou
evan AT bad.dynu.ca

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