Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Francesco Poli <invernomuto AT paranoici.org>]

Hi again,
Section 3(c)(1) of CC-by-nc-sa-v4.0draft1 states:

[...]
>     (1) You must release it under the terms of one of the following:
>
>       (i) this Public License,
>       (ii) a later version of this Public License containing the same
>       License Conditions, [or
>       (iii) a Creative Commons ported license (either this or a later
>       license version) containing the same License Conditions as this
>       Public License,]
>
>     (whichever license is chosen is the “Adaptation License”).
>
>         CC note: Alternative (iii) is bracketed in this draft because
>         the question of porting for 4.0 is undecided and will be
>         subject to discussion later in the 4.0 process.
[...]

I personally suggest to *not* port v4.0 licenses to specific jurisdictions.
I think the right approach is striving to create international licenses
that work well in as many jurisdictions as possible, without the need
of porting them to each local jurisdiction.

I also reiterate the recommendation to introduce explicit one-way
conversion clauses

 * that allow redistribution of CC-by-sa-v4.0-licensed works under the
   terms of the GNU GPL version 2 or any later version

 * that allow redistribution of CC-by-v4.0-licensed works under the
   terms of the zlib license: http://www.gzip.org/zlib/zlib_license.html

See my previous message [1] for more details.

[1] https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/cc-licenses/2011-December/006512.html

I hope these suggestions may be implemented in the next draft.


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