On 17 April 2011 13:30, 80n <[email protected]> wrote: > > The question is whether you can upload a CC-BY-SA licensed work under > any other license than CC-BY-SA?
I am sorry if I misunderstood your original question. I am not quite sure I understand this one. What do you mean by "upload .. .under" a licence? That doesn't make sense to me. Do you mean, "does CC-BY-SA" permit a contributor to contribute to OSMF under the existing contributor terms? (Answer: no) or do you mean something else? > > If I grant you a license to use a creative work under CC-BY-SA, can > you then give it to some third party under a different license? I > don't see that CC-BY-SA permits this. Yes, for some values of "a different licence". Eg, CC-BY-SA 3.0 (us version): http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/legalcode Clause 4(b) permits the distribution of the work under certain other licences, including "Creative Commons Compatible Licence(s)". Its a bafflingly drafted licence (if I may say) since it also says "You may not sublicense the Work" (in clause 4(a)) which directly contradicts what is said in 4(b). Clearly what is intended is that there is a general rule against sublicensing, subject to a specific set of permissions under clause 4(b) even though this comes under a heading "Restrictions". Re-distribution under a licence is sublicensing and cannot be anything else. As I have said (possibly on another list - I lose track) CC-BY-SA does prevent a broad and general sublicence of the kind found in many projects such as clause 2 in the contributor terms. -- Francis Davey _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
