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  • From: Francesco Poli <invernomuto AT paranoici.org>
  • To: cc-licenses <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [cc-licenses] ShareAlike: no porting, please, GPL-compatibility instead
  • Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2012 17:22:55 +0200

Hello again,
Section 3(b)(1)(C) of CC-by-sa-v4.0draft2 states:

[...]
> (1) You must release the Adaptation under one of the following:
[...]
> [or
> (C) a Creative Commons ported license (either this or a later
> license version) containing the same License Elements as this
> Public License],[Note] or
>
> [Note] Note that alternative (C) remains bracketed in this draft because
> the question of porting for 4.0 is undecided and will be subject to
> discussion upon publication of the next draft.
[...]

Once again, 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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