Development of Creative Commons licenses

[James Grimmelmann <james AT grimmelmann.net>]

drew Roberts wrote:
> Possibly:
>
> ""Creative Commons Compatible License" means a license that is listed
>  at http://creativecommons.org/compatiblelicenses that has been
>  approved by Creative Commons as being essentially equivalent to this
>  License, because it meets at least the following requirements: (i)
>  contains terms that have the same purpose, meaning and effect as the
>  License Elements of this License; and, (ii) explicitly permits the
>  relicensing of derivatives of works made available under that license
>  under this License."
>
> Now, perhaps that change is not really necessary and I was just beingt more 
> dense than ususal while reading it all these times. Comments welcome.


Perhaps I am missing something, but why couldn't the definition end 
after "essentially equivalent to this License"?  All that the rest does 
is explain what criteria CC will usually use to decide whether the 
license in the same, but nothing that adds to or subtracts from the 
actual list the canonical URL.  Whether or not it's called a "note," 
isn't it a bunch of inoperative text?  Those criteria ought to be listed 
on the page of compatible licenses, not in the license text itself, no?

James