On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 8:42 AM, SlimVirgin slimvirgin@gmail.com wrote:
Sorry to be dense, but could someone explain the significance of this? What does the new development allow or prevent that wasn't allowed or prevented before?
CC licenses are well known by gray-zone effects of their conditions: something is possible or not according to a particular interpretation. While interpretations are more strict according to the continental law system, according to the Anglo-Saxon law system things are much more extensible. And we are using the second because of the place where servers and WMF are based.
Usually, licensing conditions (whatever, not only share-alike) are interpreted only in the sense of derivative works of the same type. Which implies that conditions of usage are much PD-like (actually, BY-like) than anything else (SA, NC or ND).
Addressing those problems is a good thing. However, I would like to hear independent interpretations of the new conditions, too (like, for example, MIT interpretation is).