On Sat, 1 Dec 2007, Mike Linksvayer wrote:
Erik Moeller wrote:
From _my_ point of view, the key requirements are:
- It should apply to any type of embedded media, i.e. not limited just
to photos embedded into text;
- It should, in principle, be very similar to the CC-BY-SA license,
except for its provision on "Collections";
- It should be adaptable to as many legal frameworks as possible;
- IMPORTANT - I believe it should allow mixing of similar licenses,
e.g. CC-BY-SA into BSD -- the Definition of Free Cultural Works endorsed by Wikimedia could be a guideline as to which licenses can be mixed: http://freedomdefined.org/Definition
I like all of your points, including the last one, but it is a little unclear. I think what you mean is that for "embedded" uses, the containing document should have to be under a free license, not necessarily a compatible copyleft license. This would address use of copyleft images on Wikinews (CC BY), for example.
I would like to kickstart the discussion to get a first for such a license - it could be called CC-BY-SA+ - written as soon as possible. :-)
Erik, great points and suggestions.
I don't know why yet another class of license would be needed -- presumably it could be the next version of CC BY-SA.
Mike, this would be fantastic. One of my concerns with the current CC BY-SA is that any time I feel like using such a license, I really want sharealike to mean "derivatives must grant at least the freedoms/ rights granted by BY-SA, and pass on this clause"... to allow for the derivs to be BY / PD / &c.
SJ
Perhaps we should have a dedicated mailing list where stakeholders from multiple projects can discuss it?
You're welcome to use cc-licenses. If another list is used I'll encourage CC's jurisdiction project leads to join in there.
Mike
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