Development of Creative Commons licenses

[John Hendrik Weitzmann <jhweitzmann AT mx.uni-saarland.de>]

Hi all,

just a quick and late one: The automatic reinstatement of section 6a+b
as it is phrased now requires the licensee to be in full compliance at
least for a theoretical second. Otherwise there would be nothing to
REinstate, right?

There might not be a lot of practical value in this really, because
unintentional non-compliance usually happens from the start (classic:
Deficient attribution). Only some cases seem to actually remain for 6a,
like licensee at first merely distributes in a compliant way, then later
makes an adaptation and is not compliant anymore.

On the other hand, one wouldn't want to delete the requirement of at
least one compliant second, because that would in effect mean things
like "Hey, CCPL4 gives you 30 days free use even of NC content".

Thus, in the spirit of license simplicity it might be preferable to
cancel the whole automatic reinstatement provision of 6b.1.

Btw: "automatically" should in any case be moved one line down to 6b.1,
because "express reinstatement" as in 6b.2 can hardly qualify as
"automatic".

Best
John