Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Sarah Pearson <sarah AT creativecommons.org>]

Thanks for the email. We have been working through some final issues. We will post to this list with an update shortly. 

best,

Sarah 

  

On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 5:12 AM, Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab AT web.de> wrote:

Hi,

Are there news from the GPL compatibility process?

I consider this the biggest event for free culture in the past 5 years
and I’m eagerly hoping to see it move forward.

Best wishes,
Arne



Am Dienstag, 21. April 2015, 15:14:38 schrieb Sarah Pearson:
> Hi everyone,
>
> As you all know, we're working with the FSF to enable one-way compatibility
> from BY-SA 4.0 to the GPLv3. All signs point to this moving forward, and we
> are preparing for an announcement in early May.
>
> As we were conducting the final analysis, we discovered that I failed to
> point out one relatively significant point during the public discussion.
>
> *When BY-SA content is adapted into GPL projects, downstream users will be
> able to look to the conditions of the GPL to satisfy their obligations to
> the BY-SA licensor. GPLv3 does not contain a clause that parallels the
> attribution removal clause in BY-SA 4.0. *
>
> This point was raised during the compatibility process for the Free Art
> License on this mailing list
> <http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/cc-licenses/2014-August/007614.html>,
> but we thought it was worth calling it out again in the GPLv3 context.
>
> best,
> Sarah

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