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

Fri Sep 13 00:35:21 UTC 2013

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