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  • From: Stefan Tiedje <Stefan-Tiedje AT addcom.de>
  • To: Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [cc-licenses] Universal Copyleft License [was: Mapping of license restrictions (CC - GFDL compatibility)]
  • Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2005 13:01:58 +0100

Terry Hancock wrote:
Opinions? Am I out of my mind? ;-)

All what you propose is already possible:

1) The explicit licenses to allow conversion to are listed.

Instead of a "license" which lists licenses, just let the user choose out of a list of copuleft licenses which already exits, and if they have a SA clause, the user is free to pass the same choice to his users in case he made a derivative work.

2) The licensor specifically grants the right for later
versions of licenses to be used.

Part of at least some of the copyleft licenses.


All of the registered licenses would be ones whose *intent*
is apparently:

The main benefit of CC and also GPL is that the intent is easy to understand, and thats what creative people would want to express.


1) Sunset License

Possible today: Just add a text (not part of any license) that after a certain date the work is public domain or available under a more free license.

2) The Last Act of the Responsible Maintainer

What about when a license dies?

A license never dies, a copyright will expire 75 Years after the creator died. If you got a license, you got it.

3) The Lazy Author License

Is any of the cc licenses. Read it and forget it.

At least out of an original authors view. If you want to make derivative works it gets more complictated, but any addition to the number of licenses would make it more complicated, because the probability that the works I want to incorporate have an incompatible license is higher as the authors have one more license to choose from.

Stefan

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