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The same license would work for all archetypes - i.e. it would be used by everyone. The only reason to have the license is to make it possible for people to retain copyright and give appropriate permissions for use.
Sam
Heather Leslie: The text in the license states: "Waiver — Any of the above conditions can be waived if you get permission from the copyright holder." So downstream users cannot 'loosen' the original conditions of license without permission from the original copyright holder.
- the other main thread of discussions is about the types of threat - i.e. parties trying to lock everyone else out of a part of the archetype space by 2 possible strategies:
- patenting: this is long, hard and very expensive. We assume that only really big corporations could do this, and that they will have the legal muscle to crush any protests based on any kind of licensing and even fully copyrighted unlicenced works.
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The CC licenses are to overcome copyright restrictions - so I believe you can copyright a derived work whether it is CC-BY or CC-SA.
Sam
Heather Leslie: The CC licenses are copyright licenses. Those who want to make their work available to the public for limited kinds of uses while preserving their copyright may want to consider using CC licenses
- Trying to charge for its use is undoubtedly possible (but it might be hard to sell); trying to prevent someone else creating a very similar archetype independently seems pretty far-fetched - and this is the only real thing that CC-BY-SA could reasonably protect us from. So... would it help? It seems to us that it might stop some parties trying to do this, but it appears to be very difficult to do anyway. The whole world of open source CC-BY style (e.g. MIT) licensed software is proof of that, you don't hear much about e.g. MIT licensed projects being stopped because of copyright claims. If there is a part of the code with external copyright claim problems, then a reimplementation of that functionality is done.
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(The text above was later somewhat edited by Erik and Heather, use diff to see changes)
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