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  • From: Terry Hancock <hancock AT anansispaceworks.com>
  • To: Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [cc-licenses] Licence Upgrades
  • Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 15:38:20 -0600

On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 15:35:35 -0500
Harlan Lieberman-Berg
<sysadmin AT tacticalbusinesspartners.com> wrote:
> One thing that I have noticed about the Creative Commons
> licences in general is that they seem to have no potential
> to upgrade. For example, GPL has a statement that you can
> put in front of the licence to allow it to be upgraded to
> any future version. But, CC has no such statement in any
> of it's licences. Now, as far as I know, the only way to
> upgrade a licence would be to get permission from all
> users who have made edits. In some circumstances, with
> some works, this would be less complicated. However, for a
> wiki setting, or other high-edit works, this is nearly
> impossible.
>
> Am I missing something, or....?

Yes -- unlike the GPL, the CC licenses carry this language
*in* the license. So there is no need to include it in the
license grant. It is implied by use of a CC license, and not
optional.

Cheers,
Terry

--
Terry Hancock (hancock AT AnansiSpaceworks.com)
Anansi Spaceworks http://www.AnansiSpaceworks.com





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