Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Harlan Lieberman-Berg <sysadmin AT tacticalbusinesspartners.com>]

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
>