Re: Re: Supporting CC-BY-SA 3.0 and later versions

On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 01:11:41AM +0000, Duncan wrote:
> What about a mechanism (in-doc comments or the like) that would allow 
> existing authors to indicate that they're OK (or not) with a future 
> upgrade to CC-BY-SA 3.0?

Something akin to GPL's "or later" clause? Perhaps.

> If authors on existing docs were encouraged to take advantage of such a 
> feature/policy as opportunity invited, it'd lessen the work to eventually 
> upgrade at least some existing docs, as well, tho it wouldn't help that 
> much for those no longer involved, who would in any case need to be 
> contacted manually before such an update.  But it would at least stop the 
> problem from getting worse, and would incrementally ease the work 
> necessary if someone eventually decided to actively try for an update.

I don't consider this as a "problem" per se, so I don't think we need to put
much effort in these things. Licenses evolve; documents too. Eventually,
old(er) documents will be replaced with newer ones anyhow. And it is not
that the 2.5 license has a major issue for us - it's just that 3.0 is
somewhat newer and used on the wiki.

Wkr,
	Sven Vermeulen