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On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 01:11:41AM +0000, Duncan wrote: |
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> What about a mechanism (in-doc comments or the like) that would allow |
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> existing authors to indicate that they're OK (or not) with a future |
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> upgrade to CC-BY-SA 3.0? |
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Something akin to GPL's "or later" clause? Perhaps. |
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> If authors on existing docs were encouraged to take advantage of such a |
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> feature/policy as opportunity invited, it'd lessen the work to eventually |
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> upgrade at least some existing docs, as well, tho it wouldn't help that |
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> much for those no longer involved, who would in any case need to be |
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> contacted manually before such an update. But it would at least stop the |
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> problem from getting worse, and would incrementally ease the work |
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> necessary if someone eventually decided to actively try for an update. |
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I don't consider this as a "problem" per se, so I don't think we need to put |
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much effort in these things. Licenses evolve; documents too. Eventually, |
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old(er) documents will be replaced with newer ones anyhow. And it is not |
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that the 2.5 license has a major issue for us - it's just that 3.0 is |
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somewhat newer and used on the wiki. |
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Wkr, |
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Sven Vermeulen |
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