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  • From: melanie dulong de rosnay <melanie.dulong-de-rosnay AT cersa.org>
  • To: Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [cc-licenses] Version 3.0 — It's Happening & With BY-SA Compatibility Language Too
  • Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 11:01:51 +0100

Great news. We've been discussing since 2003 with the Free Art License team and they are the process of finalizing the FAL 1.3 version and submitting it to public discussion.
From what they explained me about the versioning changes, I would recommend compatibility from BY-SA 3.0 to FAL 1.3 as I recommended it for the previous 1.2 version.
Their compatibility method will be to recognize compatible licenses according to criteria listed outside the license text, they are looking forward to the 3.0 release in order to evaluate if it matches their freedom criteria.

best,
melanie
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Le 9 févr. 07 à 19:15, Mia Garlick a écrit :

<BY-SA v 3 (020907) (US).pdf>

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.

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