[cc-licenses] When will the BY-SA 4.0 draft be out?
Diane Peters
diane at creativecommons.org
Mon Apr 9 17:33:42 EDT 2012
Hi Ben,
To the contrary, this is not our intention at all. The fact that we
published BY-NC-SA as the draft for review has nothing to do with a
preference for NC licenses over any of the others, and everything to do
with the reality that BY-NC-SA contains all the elements of the other 5
licenses.[1] At this early stage in the process, we felt that publishing
one license with all of the elements was better than producing all six
given the number of open issues that will need to be carried through to the
others. Those on this list who have gone through the porting process are
well familiar with the exercise of mechanically building the licenses.
That said, it’s true that it could be misinterpreted as such for those who
work primarily with BY and BY-SA. Again, this wasn’t our intention, but I
should have made that more clear. Thanks for calling attention to this.
Diane
[1] The exceptions are the definition of Creative Commons Compatible
License, and including a reference to that in the SA clause. For details
see:
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/4.0/Draft_1#Provisions_for_other_Licenses_in_the_Suite
On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 4:20 PM, Ben Finney <
bignose+hates-spam at benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> Diane Peters <diane at creativecommons.org>
> writes:
>
> > Thanks for raising this. As you know, BY-SA is derived from BY-NC-SA
> > Draft 1, but with NC provisions removed and the relevant SA-related
> > provisions added.
>
> That's rather distressing. Why is the non-free NC clause given such
> primacy in the process?
>
> How can we convince you to focus primarily on free-culture licenses,
> like CC-BY and CC-BY-SA, and derive the non-free licenses (if people
> want them) from those free licenses?
>
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> Ben Finney
>
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