Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Diane Peters <diane AT creativecommons.org>]

On the porting question, please keep in mind that we are not discussing porting at this time.  We have a porting consultation period on our schedule (http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Version_3) once we are further along in our process.

Diane

On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 11:05 AM, Francesco Poli <invernomuto AT paranoici.org> wrote:

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.


--
 http://www.inventati.org/frx/frx-gpg-key-transition-2010.txt
 New GnuPG key, see the transition document!
..................................................... Francesco Poli .
 GnuPG key fpr == CA01 1147 9CD2 EFDF FB82  3925 3E1C 27E1 1F69 BFFE

_______________________________________________
List info and archives at http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/cc-licenses
Unsubscribe at http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/options/cc-licenses

In consideration of people subscribed to this list to participate
in the CC licenses http://wiki.creativecommons.org/4.0 development
process, please direct unrelated discussions to the cc-community list
http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/cc-community

--
Diane M. Peters, General Counsel
Creative Commons
cell: +1 503-803-8338
skype:  peterspdx
email:diane AT creativecommons.org
http://creativecommons.org/staff#dianepeters

______________________________________

Please note: the contents of this email are not intended to be legal
advice nor should they be relied upon as, or represented to be legal
advice.  Creative Commons cannot and does not give legal advice. You
need to assess the suitability of Creative Commons tools for your
particular situation, which may include obtaining appropriate legal
advice from a licensed attorney.