Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Terry Hancock <hancock AT anansispaceworks.com>]

Roger Chrisman wrote:
>       "By posting content to WikiTeach, you are granting a share-alike 
> full copyleft license on that content. A copyleft license uses 
> copyright law in order to ensure that every person who receives a copy 
> or derived version of a work can use, modify, and also redistribute 
> both the work, and derived versions of the work. A full copyleft 
> license imposes the requirement that any freedom that is granted 
> regarding the original work or its copies, must be granted on exactly 
> the same terms in any derived work. This allows maximum freedom for all 
> users. Each lesson plan includes a copyleft statement that must be 
> included in all copies and resulting works. This provides a mechanism 
> to preserve the copyleft freedoms for subsequent users. -in other 
> words, you give the next person the right to copy or change your 
> content in any way-you are giving it away to the world out of the 
> goodness of your heart and it belongs to everyone and no one."
> 
> WikiTeach has no other legalese style license statement, only the above.

IANAL, but ISTM that this is a policy statement for a distribution of
separate content with media-compatible (but not necessarily
derivative-compatible) licensing.

IOW, it compares to the Debian Free Software Guidelines which determine
whether a "package" can be included in Debian.

The implication would be that each item submitted would be expected to
have its own license terms, but that only copyleft licenses would be
accepted. Since the items are separate, their copylefts aren't binding
on each other, so multiple copyleft licenses can co-exist on the server.

However, it would, IMHO be smarter to have a more precise policy. And I
haven't explored the site myself.

???

Cheers,
Terry

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