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

Tue Nov 26 21:55:17 UTC 2013

Yes, we should. I don't expect any problem with approval, but if
anyone would volunteer to fill out questions in
http://opendefinition.org/licenses/process/ for BY and BY-SA 4.0,
that'd be great.

Mike

On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 1:27 AM, Leigh Dodds <leigh at ldodds.com> wrote:
> 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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