Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Terry Hancock <hancock AT anansispaceworks.com>]

White, Phil wrote:
>  Because it doesn't _enforce_ _sharing_ AFAIK. As I see it, you can
>  modify a work, release it under the same license and distribute it as
>  you will, and it seems to me that all the License Requirements have
>  been met. However, I don't want you only to share it with others, I
>  want you to share it with me (or my site-contributors) as well (and
>  unless I know about the derivative you are not sharing it with me,
>  only distributing it to others). Unless I can enforce (somehow) the
>  sharing side, as opposed to the distribution side, I am stuck...

Actually, SA *does* enforce sharing. It just doesn't give your site any
special pride of place -- you'd have to earn that, by being the best
resource.  In practice, however, the mere fact that you started a project
is usually sufficient to encourage people to contribute back to your
site.

Maybe what you should be doing is licensing CC-By-SA, and then
*politely asking* people to contribute material back to you.  You don't
need force of law for that, surely?  You seem to be fearing an outcome
that YEARS of global experience in community-based peer production
have proven is NOT a problem.  Why, for example, is this not a problem
for Wikipedia? Or for Sourceforge?

I think you're tilting at windmills after all.

Cheers,
Terry

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