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  • From: Harlan Lieberman-Berg <sysadmin AT tacticalbusinesspartners.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 16:27:26 -0500

Sorry, but can you point me to to the language that says that? Perhaps
I'm just missing something.

Harlan Lieberman-Berg

On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 15:38 -0600, Terry Hancock wrote:
> 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
>




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