The licenses are all compatible. If someone releases something under a US license, then someone may use that work in Germany under the German license.
That's what all the porting is all about.
On Jul 22, 2007, at 5:10 PM, Brianna Laugher wrote:
On 21/07/07, Joichi Ito jito@neoteny.com wrote:
One more thing to remember is that the current wording is the wording on the generic license. We really hope that most people won't use the generic license, but will use their local licenses.
I didn't realise that. Why is that? There doesn't seem to be anything on the CC website that pushes people to choose a 'local' version of the licenses. I would have thought country-specific licenses for material on the internet just makes everything more messy and complicated. (And instead of a site having to support, say, 4 licenses, they may have to support 4x100s of licenses.)
regards, Brianna
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