Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Rob Myers <rob AT robmyers.org>]

On 18 Nov 2005, at 03:35, drew Roberts wrote:

> The "Invariant Sections" - how do these affect the remix culture?

Basically unless I'm mistaken this revision would allow your BY-SA  
work to be made part of an invariant section and thus turned  
effectively into ND. Yes, yes, I know you'll say "but that would be  
additional terms on the work". Which work? The derivative work? But  
what if you are combining a BY-SA work with an FDL work with  
invariants? The derived work will have SA-breaking features.

So derived works may not use your work in invariant sections. And  
works derived from those may not either. But the FDL is the complete  
agreement. So you can't add that requirement.

THIS IS NOT GOING TO WORK.

I'm sure the effect being aimed for is a GPL-style aggregation of  
compatibly licensed materials to avoid commons fragmentation. Which  
is cool, but that is not the effect that will be achieved.

Please do not put any back doors into the CC licenses. If I want to  
FDL my work I will. As it is, licensing my work BY-SA 2.0 means that  
CC can FDL my work for me. We talked out a relicensing clause in 2.0  
and decided it was a bad idea. Which it was. And it is now.

Basically this is bad enough to make me stop using CC-BY-SA if this  
clause is added.

- Rob.