On 7/8/07, Matthew Brown morven@gmail.com wrote:
On 7/7/07, Eugene Zelenko eugene.zelenko@gmail.com wrote:
Free licenses are irrevocable. Only changes to less restrictive license should be allowed (for example, CC-BY-SA -> CC-BY).
Users can screw up. They must be allowed to change to the license they actually intended. Flickr would, I believe, not agree to an irreversable license change because of the tech support headache it would cause.
On the other hand, keeping a license history might be a good idea.
-Matt
No changing licenses allowed after the image has been uploaded for #days? I imagine most mistakes are caught within the first two days or so, anything after that is likely just changing their mind. Hard to judge I imagine, but then again if there were notices on upload pages saying "After x number of days licenses are non-revokable: please choose wisely" I imagine people would pay more attention.
It may be good for everyone if that happens anyway, too many people don't really care and just slap whatever license they feel like on an image, and then complain when it's used and change to All Rights Reserved. We might get a few less freely-licensed images, but also a lot less confusion and complaints and changes and misunderstandings.