Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Rob Myers <rob AT robmyers.org>]

On 5 Jan 2006, at 05:25, Greg London wrote:

> > And the central question is when CC-BY-SA 2.0 says
> > Ian "may distribute, ... a Derivative Work only under
> > ... a later version of this License with the same License
> > Elements as this License..." does that mean that Ian
> > can now switch the license of Greg's poem from 2.0 to 3.0?
>
> I believe that is true.

I was told that this isn't the case by Lessig when I emailed him  
about FDL compatibility.

I think that only derivatives are covered, but that if I add stuff to  
one of Greg's books to create a derivative work, the whole work is  
the derivative, not just the bits I add. So although it might look  
like I am relicensing Greg's work under 3.0, I am actually just  
relicensing the derivative work that includes Greg's original work.

It helps to not think about linking code as a model of derivative  
work when considering this. :-)

> I am not a lawyer. This is not legal advice.

Me too.

- Rob.