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  • From: Mike Linksvayer <ml AT creativecommons.org>
  • To: Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Versioning note
  • Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 09:31:14 -0800

You'll probably be interested in a note <http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/3968> Glenn posted to the CC weblog yesterday:



Versioning -- Coming Up
2004-01-22

We'll be posting drafts of the new versions of our licenses later this
week. About a month of review time will follow, and then we'll revise
as needed and turn the new licenses on. Throughout the next couple of
weeks we will explain how the process of versioning will happen.

Meantime, here's a preview of the highlights:

- Warranties will now be a matter of choice for the licensor. The new
licenses will disclaim warranties, but licensors will of course be
free to negotiate warranties with licensees who demand them. (We'll
also work on a protocol to help people add warranties if they want to
-- but that will come later on.) Special thanks to Karl-Friedrich Lenz
[1] and Dan Bricklin[2] and many more for persuading us on this point.
More explanation in a separate post soon.
- The attribution clause will include a link-back requirement simliar
to the one previously discussed[3] here. Licensees will only be
required to link back to licensors if (1) it's reasonably practical to
do so; (2) the licensor actually specifies a URI; (3) that URI
actually points to license information about the work.
- The Share Alike provision will be more flexible. The provision will
allow licensees to license resulting derivative works under Creative
Commons licenses that feature the same license
restrictions/permissions, including future and iCommons versions of
the same license.
- The Share Alike provision will also be clearer about what happens
when different kinds of Share Alike content is mixed together (e.g.,
How to license a collage made from an SA photograph combined with an
NC-SA photograph).
- We're still looking into the issue of compatibility between our SA
licenses and the GNU FDL. Compared to the above improvements, this
potential tweak came on our radar pretty recently. We'll do our best
to address it. Thanks to the many of you who've written in on this
point.
- Other minor tweaks.

More soon.

[1] http://k.lenz.name/LB/
[2] http://danbricklin.com/log/
[3] http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/3636

--
Mike Linksvayer
http://creativecommons.org/learn/aboutus/people#21



  • Versioning note, Mike Linksvayer, 01/23/2004

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