Development of Creative Commons licenses

[rob AT robmyers.org]

Quoting Alexander Genaud <alexgenaud AT gmail.com>:

> Hej Daniel,
>
> Thanks for your response. I do not believe public domain and a
> copyright to everyone are quite the same thing.

A copyright is an exclusive right. If a copyright was for everyone, it 
would be
universally inclusive, and so would not be a copyright.

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

Try CC-BY-SA. This allows anyone to use the copyrighted work and requires that
they respect this and re-release the work under the same terms.

- Rob.