Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Engel Nyst <engel.nyst AT gmail.com>]

On 08/08/2014 03:02 PM, Sarah Pearson wrote:
> *Option to comply with later versions*

Just to note, any built-in option to comply with later versions implies
the trust of the licensor that the license steward will keep versions
inline with their expectations. In a case of mixes of any free licenses,
I don't feel it's a big deal (usually). But in a case like this, where a
copyleft is effectively relicensed to another, this requires trust in
both stewards that they will keep further versions inline with all
expectations of authors for their work.

Adding more licenses to the compatibility list becomes a requirement for
authors to trust all stewards of the respective licenses, for the terms
of authors' *own work*, not just for terms of licenses their work can be
mixed with.


I note that the above remark is due to 2(a)(5)(B).

--
~ "That an author, at common law, has a property in his manuscript, and
may obtain redress against any one who deprives him of it, cannot be
doubted; but this is a very different right from that which asserts a
perpetual and exclusive property in the future publication of the work,
after the author shall have published it to the world."
Wheaton v. Peters, 1832