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[rob AT robmyers.org]

CC-US want to defragment the commons. Which is good.

But to do this they want to make your BY-SA work relicensable as FDL, 
invariant
sections and all:

"You may distribute, publicly display, publicly perform, or publicly digitally
perform a Derivative Work only under the terms of: (i) this License, ; (ii) a
later version of this License with the same License Elements as this License, 
;
(iii) or a Creative Commons iCommons license that contains the same License
Elements as this License (e.g. Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 Japan); or, (iv)
under the GNU Free Documentation License 1.0 or any subsequent version of that
license, in which case . you must comply with the requirements of that
license."

This is worse than the 2.0 aggregation relicensing or the BBC-CA backdoor
prooposal for the CC-UK licenses.

Although CC-US are phrasing this as a defragmentation measure it is 
interesting
that it makes CC-BY-SA content usable by Wikipedia but not the other way 
round.
This will be the second wiki-compliance measure CC-US have sought to introduce
in 2005.

Please can people let CC-US know how wrongheaded this approach is and make a 
lot
of public noise about it, otherwise CC-US will just slip it in to a 2.6 
licence
in a couple of weeks time.

Either Lawrence Lessig - lessig AT pobox.com or Mia Garlick -
mia AT creativecommons.org (who posted this on cc-license-discuss) would be good
contacts.

Thanks.

- Rob.