www/licenses identify-licenses-clearly.html

[Richard M. Stallman]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Richard M. Stallman <rms>       20/07/23 22:27:42

Modified files:
        licenses       : identify-licenses-clearly.html 

Log message:
        Only one CC license supports version updating.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/licenses/identify-licenses-clearly.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.8&r2=1.9

Patches:
Index: identify-licenses-clearly.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/www/www/licenses/identify-licenses-clearly.html,v
retrieving revision 1.8
retrieving revision 1.9
diff -u -b -r1.8 -r1.9
--- identify-licenses-clearly.html      15 Dec 2018 14:02:36 -0000      1.8
+++ identify-licenses-clearly.html      24 Jul 2020 02:27:41 -0000      1.9
@@ -126,13 +126,15 @@
 <li>GFDL-1.3.</li></ul>
 
 <p>Giving developers the choice of GPL version &ldquo;1 only&rdquo; or GPL 
version &ldquo;1
-or later&rdquo; seemed obligatory in 1989, but it has created a complexity
-that we would be better off without. Meanwhile, several licenses that
-unconditionally give users the choice to upgrade to later license
-versions have become widely accepted. These include the Mozilla
-Public License, the Eclipse Public License, and all the Creative
-Commons licenses. Each version says that a user is free to use the
-work under later versions, if any, of the same license.</p>
+or later&rdquo; seemed obligatory in 1989, but it has created a
+complexity that we would be better off without. Meanwhile, several
+licenses that unconditionally give users the choice to upgrade to
+later license versions have become widely accepted. These include the
+Mozilla Public License and the Eclipse Public License.  Each version
+says that a user is free to use the work under later versions, if any,
+of the same license.  The Creative Commons copyleft license, CC-BY-SA,
+permits users to upgrade the license version when they modify the work.
+</p>
 
 <p>Perhaps we should switch to that approach for future versions of the
 GNU GPL. But that is something to think about in the future.</p>
@@ -205,7 +207,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2018/12/15 14:02:36 $
+$Date: 2020/07/24 02:27:41 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>