On 10/06/05, MacGyverMagic/Mgm <macgyvermagic(a)gmail.com> wrote:
By the way, I fail to see any difference between 2.0
and 2.5 Can some
more law-savvy people explain the difference. I'm almost sure it's in
the legal version of the license.
I find the creativecommons site very hard to find such information on,
although I'm sure it's there. But with a bit of Googling I turned up
the *beginning* of the discussion about v2.5...
http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/cc-licenses/2005-May/002313.html
...and it "Drawing to a Close"...
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/5457
...but no announcement that it has "become official", although it does
seem to have.
Basically, it seems to be to do with electing who gets attribution -
to allow collective and nominated attribution in some way. Don't ask
me how, or how this relates to the cc-wiki proposal, because I've only
skimmed the stuff, but the links above seem to basically explain it if
you have the patience to work it out.
--
Rowan Collins BSc
[IMSoP]