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

[Mike Linksvayer]

Thank you very much Kat, and for being available on the telecon for
questions. There were none, so as discussed on call we move to two week
call for approval on this list per
http://opendefinition.org/licenses/process/

If approved CC-BY-4.0 and CC-BY-SA-4.0 will be listed as open data and
content licenses on http://opendefinition.org/licenses/ -- they
unambiguously license database rights, unlike previous versions.

I'm +1 on approving both license.

(I have an extended and idiosyncratic review of all of the CC 4.0
licenses at http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2013/12/09/scc-cc-40/ -- other
comments aside, I am confident CC-BY-4.0 and CC-BY-SA-4.0 are open and
ought be approved, and furthermore will have good effects on the overall
open ecosystem -- increasing interoperability, decreasing proliferation,
etc.)

Mike

On 12/11/2013 02:48 PM, Kat Walsh wrote:
> 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
>