[cc-licenses] Version 3.0 — It's Happening & With BY-SA Compatibility Language Too

Mia Garlick mia at creativecommons.org
Fri Feb 9 13:15:29 EST 2007


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So it's been a while since we discussed Version 3.0 but it *is* still  
happening.  We're putting the finishing touches on the new license  
drafts for the new US and new generic/unported licenses and working  
to make them public within the next 10 days.

As you know, Creative Commons has long been hopeful of enabling  
interoperability between licenses that guarantee the same frictions.   
Back in November 2005, Larry described his vision (http:// 
creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/5709) of building an ecology of free  
licenses.

Although it has not been possible to date to agree with other license  
stewards on the exact details necessary to make licenses that are  
equivalent compatible, Creative Commons remains hopeful that it will  
be possible at a date in the future to secure the necessary agreement  
with license stewards for equivalent licenses.  Because we would have  
to change our licenses to effect this and because we are reticient to  
version too often (not just because it requires a lot of work for all  
concerned but also because it adds complexity to a system designed to  
be simple), we propose to include the structure of compatibility as  
part of the Version 3.0 changes.

Given it is the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license that  
is most likely to be capable of compatibility with other existing  
flexible licenses, we are proposing to add new language to the  
"ShareAlike clause" of the BY-SA to establish the structure of  
compatibility.

An amended version of the draft Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 (US)  
license is posted above.  Please post any comments you have to this  
list.

Because we are anticipating that this will not be controversial or  
provoke much comment, we are hoping to roll out the Version 3.0  
licenses by the end of next week with the new BY-SA compatibility  
language included.  So if you have comments or suggestions for  
improvement, please make them to this list as soon as possible.

Rgds, Mia


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