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  • From: Daniel Carrera <daniel.carrera AT zmsl.com>
  • To: lx AT pobox.com
  • Cc: Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [cc-licenses] (c) 2005 All of humanity
  • Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 10:41:27 +0100

Alexander Genaud wrote:
Thanks for your response. I do not believe public domain and a
copyright to everyone are quite the same thing.

In practice they are, and "public domain" at least has precedent.


Agreed. However, while I can redistribute a public domain work under
my own copyright, I must retain the copyright of a work owned by
everyone.

That's only half-true, and doesn't apply to the case you proposed. If you and I are both equal copyright holders of a work, I am free to do what I want with it and I don't have to put your name down.

In other words, I believe, no one individual can release
changes under closed terms if the recipient is also a copyright
holder.

This is not true.

If you and I are both copyright holders over a work, and I make changes, I have the sole copyright over my changes. Period. I can give you expamples where this happens today (e.g. Sun's StarOffice, Codeweavers' CrossOverOffice, etc.)

If what you want is to ensure that changes remain open, you should use a license like the GPL or ShareAlike.

Cheers,
Daniel.
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