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Singularity Hub used to publish all their content under Creative Commons and that had even earned them a place in the Creative Commons Wiki.

Today I checked up on the website only to see that they changed their articles license to a propitiatory one. https://singularityhub.com/

How to guarantee that when I choose a website that publish articles under Creative Commons, that they will not change their license?

  • JASN_DE@feddit.org
    13·
    3 days ago

    How to guarantee that when I choose a website that publish articles under Creative Commons, that they will not change their license?

    There will never be a guarantee.

  • sga@lemmings.worldEnglish
    4·
    3 days ago

    If you want to publish, please do 2 things - find a publisher which does not necessitate exclusivity (as in, you do not necessarily have to just publish something on there portal) - and secondly, make a portal of your own, and publich a duplicate copy there. This serves 2 purposes, if someone really wants to follow your work, they can just follow your website, and in case a future bait and switch happens, you have a backup of all your work.

  • lordnikon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    3 days ago

    I may be wrong with creative commons but doesn’t it work the same with the gpl. They can relicenae it inder a different license if they own the copyright but you still have access to the version under the first license.

    • skarn@discuss.tchncs.de
      1·
      3 days ago

      You can totally do it with the GPL as well, as long as you own 100% od the copyright. Of you accept a patch, and don’t get copyright attribution… You’re stuck with the GPL forever.

      • hedgehog@ttrpg.network
        1·
        3 days ago

        stuck with the GPL forever

        If you accept a patch and don’t have the ability to relicense it, you can remove it and re-license the new codebase. You can even re-implement changes made by the patch in many cases, whether those changes are bug fixes or new features.

        If you re-implement the change, you do need to ensure this is done in a way that doesn’t cause it to become a derivative work, but it’s much easier if you have copyright to 99% of a work already and only need to re-implement 1% or so. If you’ve received substantial community contributions and the community is opposed to relicensing, it will be much harder to do so.

        A clean room implementation - where the person rewriting the code doesn’t look at the original code, and is only given a description of the functionality - which can include a detailed description of the algorithm - is the most defensible way to perform such a rewrite and relicense, but it’s not the only option.

        You should generally consult an attorney when relicensing and shouldn’t just do it casually. But a single patch certainly doesn’t mean you’re locked in forever.

  • sga@lemmings.worldEnglish
    1·
    3 days ago

    If you want to publish, please do 2 things - find a publisher which does not necessitate exclusivity (as in, you do not necessarily have to just publish something on there portal) - and secondly, make a portal of your own, and publich a duplicate copy there. This serves 2 purposes, if someone really wants to follow your work, they can just follow your website, and in case a future bait and switch happens, you have a backup of all your work.