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This approach is relatively simple, and requires little planning or legal overhead. Contributors need only decide which license the project will use and be careful about the license terms for the work of others that they incorporate...
However, distributed licensing projects become unable to make licensing decisions over time, like upgrading to a new version of their license, if contributors become unavailable or refuse to go along. Even a single holdout can block a license decision...
The cross license collaborative represents a new idea in licensing. Once you understand that idea, it's really pretty simple. To get there, it often helps to compare cross license collaboratives to how online creative projects handle licensing today.