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About my Apple II History conversion project

This Apple II history was originally written by Steven Weyhrich, in the 1990's as *23* different text files! Depending on how you measure it, in total it's between 300 and 400 pages! Over the years, Steven edited the files, added some content, ported them to HTML, added some low quality images. These versions are scattered around, in various states for completeness, and slowly succumbing bit rot.

Original text file version (Part 3)

Early 2000's HTML version (All)

PDF of all the content circa 1998

The versions that do exist have many issues:

Originally the files were just text, with minimal formatting, and ASCII art which doesn't render properly due to charsets.
Many versions of the files have hard newlines to keep lines below 40 characters or 80 characters
Weird and inconsistent indenting, spacing.
Images were added later, resulting in footnotes that are out of order
Some images don't have footnotes
Images are of low quality/low resolution typical of late 1990's
Images come from unknown sources, with unknown usage rights
Not properly formatted metadata

I collected the various versions, formatted them to markdown, added metadata, and replaced the unknown/unsourced images with high resolution images from sources like Wikipedia or the Internet Archive. The markdown is available via GitHub. I then converted that Markdown to Gemtext for publication here.

Apple II History (Markdown Export)

Licensing

An HTML version of the history was published in the early 2000's under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) license. While this license does prohibit derivative works, the Creative Commons FAQ says that changing the format of a work, such as from HTML to Markdown or Gemtext, does not constitute a derivative or adaption, and is allowed under NoDerivs licenses.

When I release my work under a CC license in one format (e.g., .pdf), can I restrict licensees from changing it to or using it in other formats?