On 7/27/06, Garion96 <garion96(a)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