A license is, specifically, not a contract. Tom Morton
On 11 Apr 2012, at 18:30, Sarah <slimvir...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 6:50 AM, Lars Aronsson <l...@aronsson.se> wrote: >> On 04/11/2012 06:45 AM, Sarah wrote: >>> >>> Can anyone point me to the basis of the claim that cc licences are >>> irrevocable? If someone were to upload an image to Flickr with a cc >>> non-commercial licence, then changed her mind and broadened it to >>> allow commercial use, Commons would not reject the image on the >>> grounds that the first, more restrictive, licence was irrevocable. >> >> >> Granting a license means opening a legal door. Granting another >> license means opening another door, and this is okay. That is >> called "dual licensing" and the famous example is MySQL software. >> But irrevocable means you're not allowed to close the first door. >> >> The people who reuse your content based on the first license, >> must still be allowed to do this. If you try to sue them for reusing >> your content under a license that you now regret, they are safe >> because you granted them an irrevocable license. > > Thank you for the explanation. As I mentioned earlier, surely only > adults can grant irrevocable licences. Huge numbers of our uploaders > are under the age of consent. We ask all kinds of questions before > allowing people to upload (are you the author, has your work been > published before, etc), but we don't ask "are you over 18?" > > Many of the rest of the uploaders aren't paying attention, and often > the authors aren't the uploaders, but have consented by email without > realizing what they're agreeing to. >> >> What we're discussing here is whether Commons should respect >> people who wish to regret having granted irrevocable licenses. >> Legally they may (or may not) be able to claim they didn't >> understand what they were doing. But then Commons could >> respect such wishes even if there is no legal demand. >> > Yes, indeed, but as we see, they don't. > > Sarah > > _______________________________________________ > Commons-l mailing list > Commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l
