Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Mia Garlick <mia AT creativecommons.org>]

the purpose for including the criteria is so that people who use the  
license can know and feel some reassurance in the measures by which  
CC will be deeming licenses as compatible.  also, it is important  
that the criteria be laid out so that those who are license stewards  
for potentially compatible licenses know what is required to be  
declared compatible.

On Feb 10, 2007, at 3:13 PM, James Grimmelmann wrote:

> 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
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