[od-discuss] Creative Commons 4.0 BY and BY-SA International

Wed Dec 11 22:48:26 UTC 2013

Answering questions for Creative Commons BY and BY-SA 4.0
International licenses--for both together, since there are very few
areas where the answers are not the same. (It doesn't look like there
is much call for discussion, but it seems proper to submit! I will
also join tomorrow's call in case there are any questions.)

Links:

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode

Rationale for the new licenses:

Improvement upon previous versions of the licenses according to stated
goals--internationalization, interoperability, long-lasting,
suitability for new important fields of use such as data and PSI,
support for existing uses.

Are the licenses specific to an organization/place/jurisdiction:

No.

Compare and contrast to existing OD-conformant licenses:

Update of the conformant CC BY 3.0 and CC BY-SA 3.0, with changes to
address internationalization, scope, and a few other areas as detailed
at http://wiki.creativecommons.org/License_Versions

Benefit over already approved OD-conformant licenses outweighing
license proliferation costs:

Better serves existing adopters and resolves some uncertainties;
reduces demand for jurisdiction ports and customized licenses by
better addressing weaknesses in previous versions.

Compatible with existing OD-conformant licenses:

BY-SA: Works released under this license are compatible with later
versions of BY-SA (possible compatibility with other conformant
licenses in future). Works under some conformant licenses are one-way
compatible with this license, including the BY license and previous
versions of BY-SA.

BY: Compatible with any license that does not make compliance with
both sets of terms impossible.

Link to public drafting process:

Details of the public drafting process available on
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/4.0 and in the archives of the
CC-licenses list at
http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/cc-licenses.

Cheers,
Kat

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