Development of Creative Commons licenses

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

On Sat, 2005-24-09 at 21:24 -0500, longdead wrote:
>  For example, if I write a story 
> and someone contributes to it I would want to be able to sell both the 
> original and the derivative, while restricting any who makes a 
> derivative to release only non-commercially and under the share alike 
> provisions.
How is that in any way fair?
> It seems like the Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License would 
> require the original author to be forced to use derivatives 
> non-commercially.  Or am I misunderstanding something?

You're understanding quite correctly.

I find it unlikely that you'll get much support from people when you're trying to set up this asymmetrical contribution system. However, if you're really bent on it, you can fiddle with the text of the by-nc or by-nc-sa to make it work. Just don't call it a "Creative Commons license", which it would no longer be.

~Evan