On 7/8/07, Matthew Brown <morven(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 7/7/07, Eugene Zelenko <eugene.zelenko(a)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.
--
Ayelie
~Editor at Large