This is about a week late, but I figured I would take a look today and see what the differences are by comparing the two side by side.
It seems to clarify some of the attribution information, especially the case of requesting someone to *remove* attribution (basically, if I create work X licensed under CC, and people I don't want to be associated with use it to create work Y, I cannot demand that they stop doing it, if they are using the license correctly, but I *can* request they take my name off it). This was already in 2.0 but they seem to have tried to strengthen this a bit, if I'm interpretting this correctly (but I'm no lawyer).
It also looks like you can have a Licensor Designate ("e.g. a sponsor institute, publishing entity, journal") be in charge of the licensing as well, instead of just the Original Author.
Besides these two changes to section 4(a) and 4(b) there doesn't seem to be anything else different.
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On 6/10/05, Rowan Collins rowan.collins@gmail.com wrote:
On 10/06/05, MacGyverMagic/Mgm macgyvermagic@gmail.com wrote:
By the way, I fail to see any difference between 2.0 and 2.5 Can some more law-savvy people explain the difference. I'm almost sure it's in the legal version of the license.
I find the creativecommons site very hard to find such information on, although I'm sure it's there. But with a bit of Googling I turned up the *beginning* of the discussion about v2.5... http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/cc-licenses/2005-May/002313.html ...and it "Drawing to a Close"... http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/5457 ...but no announcement that it has "become official", although it does seem to have.
Basically, it seems to be to do with electing who gets attribution - to allow collective and nominated attribution in some way. Don't ask me how, or how this relates to the cc-wiki proposal, because I've only skimmed the stuff, but the links above seem to basically explain it if you have the patience to work it out.
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