http://www.lessig.org/blog/archives/002782.shtml
Basically they plan to formalise the ability to require attribution to a named entity as an alternative to copyright holder. This is what we were aiming for in at least some of the licensing policies of the openguides sites.
This one time, at band camp, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
http://www.lessig.org/blog/archives/002782.shtml
Basically they plan to formalise the ability to require attribution to a named entity as an alternative to copyright holder. This is what we were aiming for in at least some of the licensing policies of the openguides sites.
But how do you relicense existing material?
On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 10:43:33AM +0000, Rev Simon Rumble wrote:
But how do you relicense existing material?
You get the permission of the copyright holders.
In the case if this licence, if it's made sufficiently close to by-sa I think you could argue that the change was functionally equivalent to the existing setup.
In fact, we did change the OG licence (from "undefined" to by-sa). The best we could do was to place a notice on the home page to invite contributors to contact us if they did not wish their work to be relicensed. It is somewhat dubious, but we decided it was the best thing to do under the circumstances, and I'm confident that I've personally told most of the serious contributors (though who have submitted copyrightable work).
This one time, at band camp, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
In the case if this licence, if it's made sufficiently close to by-sa I think you could argue that the change was functionally equivalent to the existing setup.
It looks, from the discussion, that it's going to just be an optional tweak on by-sa, which might resolve the problem.
The GPL allows licensees to use the version of the licence on the work or any later version. by-sa 1.0 doesn't seem to have this, but 2.0 does seem to have it.
This entails quite a bit of trust in the organisation that writes the legal stuff, though the licence details seem to force that down a bit.
"under the terms of this License, a later version of this License with the same License Elements as this License, or a Creative Commons iCommons license that contains the same License Elements as this License"
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/legalcode
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