[od-discuss] Fwd: [cc-licenses] 4.0: fourth (and final) license draft ready for comment

[Leigh Dodds]

Hi,

Do we need to pick this up again now that the 4.0 licences have been released?

Cheers,

L.

On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 1:35 AM, Mike Linksvayer <ml at gondwanaland.com> wrote:
> Hi, as mentioned previously, I'd like this group to be able to say
> that CC-BY-4.0 and CC-BY-SA-4.0 conform with the Open Definition,
> holding them to the same standard any other license is held to.
>
> CC has just published a 4th and maybe final draft of CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0.
> Obviously NonCommercial makes this non-open, but it's easy to ignore
> the NC parts and see whether BY and BY-SA will have problems. I don't
> think they will. Here are a couple areas where licenses have problems,
> and why, BY and BY-SA based on this draft won't (but I encourage
> scrutinizing by all, and if anything found, raising it immediately):
>
> * No endorsement. No permission is given to imply endorsement,
> non-problematic (cf ensure you do not use ... to imply endorsement,
> which is a problem)
> * Patent and trademark rights are not licensed under this Public
> License. Which is OK (cf license not applying if other rights are
> present, which is a problem)
>
> Mike
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Diane Peters <diane at creativecommons.org>
> Date: Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 5:03 PM
> Subject: [cc-licenses] 4.0: fourth (and final) license draft ready for comment
> To: Development of Creative Commons licenses <cc-licenses at lists.ibiblio.org>
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> Thanks so much for your patience as we concluded a final review of draft 4
> following our Global Summit in Argentina.  We have now published draft 4 on
> the staging server, and associated explanatory materials on the wiki.
>
>    - Blog post <http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/39587>highlighting
>    key changes and issues for comment
>    - BY-NC-SA<http://staging.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/legalcode>(the
> other five will be published in the next few days)
>    - Comparison of d3 and d4 of BY-NC-SA
> [PDF<http://wiki.creativecommons.org/images/0/02/Comparison_draft_3_to_draft_4.pdf>
>    ]
>    - Main d4 discussion page
> <http://wiki.creativecommons.org/4.0/Draft_4>with further explanations
> and links to individual issues pages with d4
>    treatment
>
> This will be an abbreviated discussion period, lasting only about two
> weeks.  We look forward to hearing from you on this list.
>
> Diane
>
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