[Commons-l] CC-3.0 and Jimmy's comment on CC-3.0.

[Jimmy Wales]

The licenses are all compatible.  If someone releases something under  
a US license, then someone may use that work in Germany under the  
German license.

That's what all the porting is all about.




On Jul 22, 2007, at 5:10 PM, Brianna Laugher wrote:

> On 21/07/07, Joichi Ito <jito at neoteny.com> wrote:
>> One more thing to remember is that the current wording is the wording
>> on the generic license. We really hope that most people won't use the
>> generic license, but will use their local licenses.
>
> I didn't realise that. Why is that? There doesn't seem to be anything
> on the CC website that pushes people to choose a 'local' version of
> the licenses.
> I would have thought country-specific licenses for material on the
> internet just makes everything more messy and complicated. (And
> instead of a site having to support, say, 4 licenses, they may have to
> support 4x100s of licenses.)
>
> regards,
> Brianna
>
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