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
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    8 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.world
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    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.

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    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.

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      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.

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    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.