Development of Creative Commons licenses

[paul keller <paul AT waag.org>]

dear mia et all,

i agree with the other reactions on this list that including the  
possibility of relicensing under GFDL is an extremely important step  
for creative commons. i do not have to add too much to the discussion  
about the new possibility to relicense under GFDL. i do however have  
a few remarks concerning the other three relicensing provisions and  
how they affect compatibility:

the proposed license provision reads:

> You may distribute, publicly display, publicly perform, or publicly  
> digitally perform a Derivative Work only under the terms of: (i)  
> this License; (ii) a later version of this License with the same  
> License Elements as this License; (iii) a Creative Commons iCommons  
> license that contains the same License Elements as this License  
> (e.g. Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 Japan)

assuming this is the text of the US/generic license it is fine as it  
allows relicensing under the US/generic version and the localized  
iCommons versions of the same license. if this gets literally  
translated into a icommons license it will not allow for sharing  
works obtained under that license under the terms of the generic/US  
version. this can be solved in the translation process by changing  
the license text but i think this is not really desirable.

the best solution would probably to end differentiating between the  
US/generic version and iCommons licenses. (the language does need to  
be changed anyway given the recent repurposing of the 'icommons'  
label). i guess it makes more sense to call all licenses creative  
commons licenses. and change the above quote to the following:

> You may distribute, publicly display, publicly perform, or publicly  
> digitally perform a Derivative Work only under the terms of: (i)  
> this License; (ii) a later version of this License with the same  
> License Elements as this License; (iii) a Creative Commons ported  
> to another Jurisdiction license that contains the same License  
> Elements as this License (e.g. Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 Japan)

all the best from bangalore,
paul keller

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