On 7/27/06, Garion96 garion96@gmail.com wrote:
Luckily that is often (but not always) quite obvious.
Concerning the more restrictive license. Isn't there a rule in Creative Commons that you can't change from a more open to a more restricted license? If so, maybe we or CC should mail flickr and see if we get a response.
Garion
I'm unclear who the "you" is here. If the you is the original copyright holder (remember, except in PD cases, licensing out your work under CC licenses and such does not strip you of your copyright), then they certainly can do that, relicense as what they like. Ex. you could relicense all your Wikipedia GFDL edits to whatever the cool GFDL-compatible CC alphabet soup license is ''du jour'', or to a BSD license. And then the next day you could decide to simply go public domain. People can still still your edits as GFDL from when they were GFDL and so on. If it's someone else, well, that depends on the license. Take BSD again; it famously allows proprietary forks, taking code to a more restrictive license. Such a possibility is open for derivative works under certain CC licenses AFAIK.
~maru