Development of Creative Commons licenses

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

On Thursday 05 May 2005 06:06 pm, wiki_tomos wrote:
> drew Roberts wrote:
> >And if that won't work, the original author just neads to actually release
> > it twice with the different licenses. Which I will do now (in abbreviated
> > form) by way of example with a short poem I wrote back in high school.
> >
> >-----
> >The following poem is release under the CC BY-SA license:
>
> <--snip-->
>
> >-----
> >The following poem is release under the GFDL license:
>
> <--snip-->
>
> >See what I mean?
>
> (Please be reminded that I'm not a lawyer)
>
> This example is interesting. I think I am granted to reproduce those two
> separate works of the same substance ("verbatim copying in quantity" in
> GFDL's sense). Do I have the right to combine the resulting two copies into
> one? None in either license seem to allow me to do that.

I am not sure what you are asking. How can you combine two identical things 
into one?

I see the situation like this. Choose to make a derivative of either (or 
both.) Release you work. Lather, rinse, repeat.
>
> If the original two poems were dual-licensed, would it be any different? I
> am not sure, but perhaps not.
>
> Since I do not have enough expertise to answer this question with
> certainty, I tend to think that a safer approach to dual-licensing is to
> release a work under a meta-license, or to request CC & FSF to insert a
> dual-licensing clause in their license texts. I sketched those ideas here:
>
> https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/cc-licenses/2004-December/001456.html
> https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/cc-licenses/2004-December/001457.html
>
> Regards,
>
> Tomos

all the best,

drew