[OSM-legal-talk] "A Creative Commons iCommons license"

[Rob Myers]

Richard Fairhurst wrote: 

> Very roughly (I'm generalising here), in both cases, Derivatives refer =
to a
> situation where the entire result is copyleft, Collectives refer to
> something where only part of it is.=20

A collective work includes the untransformed work.

A derivative work adapts it in some way.

One can claim copyright on either (IIRC), but as a pragmatic move
alternative licences tend to ignore collective works.

> Produced Works are a subclass of the
> latter, not a new class at all. The data component is still copyleft, a=
nd a
> stronger copyleft than CC-BY-SA gives, but other independently sourced
> components may not be.

Is this to handle the way people wish layers to work?

- Rob.

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