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  • From: Rob Myers <robmyers AT mac.com>
  • To: cc-uk <cc-uk AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [Cc-uk] The Dual-License-License
  • Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 15:15:07 +0000

The more I think about it, the more dual licensing (allowing people to select
CC-BY-NC-*-UK and CC-SA simultaneously when licensing) seems an ideal
solution to the "black hole" problem and the BBC's need for different
definitions for some terms.

Using this approach, the licenses do not need to be literally compatible and
they do not need to refer to each other. Another license doesn't have to be
made and maintained. And people can choose compatibility or not.

Dual licensing is well understood in Open Source software development. I
think using this would be more effective than an "exception", which is what a
clause allowing the CC-CA license to use the CC-UK ones would amount to.

To repeat the example I gave before, when you go through the Creative Commons
website (or use their API) to choose a license, if you choose a compatible
CC-UK license, you would be be given (and steered towards...) the checkbox
option of choosing to dual license the work under the license you've chosen
*and* the CC-CA license.

Or if that is objectionable, the license chooser could have "Dual License" as
one of the license options. Choosing this would license the work CC-UK-* and
CC-CA simultaneously. CC-DL?

- Rob.



  • [Cc-uk] The Dual-License-License, Rob Myers, 11/22/2004

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