Fwd: Preview of v4.0 public discussion draft #1
Ivan Chew
We need your input!
One of our highest priorities is to ensure to the extent possible that the 4.0 licenses work seamlessly in as many jurisdictions, and for as many constituents, as possible. Please help us identify provisions that could be improved to operate better in your locale and for the communities of CC adopters you care about.
We have updated the 4.0 wiki with a special page dedicated to this first draft, where you can find the full draft of BY-NC-SA and a detailed chart comparing this draft to version 3.0, among other resources. The primary discussion forum continues to be the license-discuss list. We look forward to hearing from you!"From: Diane Peters
Date: Monday, April 2, 2012
Subject: [cc-affiliates] [CC Affiliates] Preview of v4.0 public discussion draft #1
To: cc-aff...@lists.ibiblio.org
Hi everyone,
We are pleased to announce that we are ready to publish draft 1 of version 4.0 for public discussion. The announcement will be made by early Monday, by way of publication to the blog and the license-discuss and community lists.
We’d like to share with you a preview of the draft and related communications. Attached is the final text of draft #1 (BY-NC-SA v4.0d1). (Note that BY-NC-SA is the only license being published during this first public comment period – as many of you are aware from your porting days, the other licenses are easily derived from it once finalized.) We have also prepared a comparison chart between 3.0 (international) and this draft, with brief explanations of changes to facilitate your review. In-depth explanations are being finalized for publication to the wiki and will go live with the blog posting. A draft of the blog post is pasted below.
As mentioned, we plan to circulate the draft publicly by Monday, and will alert you on this list when it is public. Until we do so we ask you not to forward it or discuss it publicly beyond this list. We are making the announcement early to affiliates in recognition of the important role you play in shaping the licenses, so that you can be prepared for any questions you receive from your community, and so you as affiliates have a chance to ask any immediate questions of CC that you may have before the draft goes public. However, we would prefer that the public announcement be accompanied by the explanatory materials we are currently finalizing, and so must ask that you keep the draft internal to CC until those are ready. Please respect others within our affiliate group by not circulating it further until the public announcement.
We expect this first public comment process to last until sometime in May, and the second draft to be published in June. We will be coordinating time zone-friendly affiliate conference calls in collaboration with your Regional Project Managers, to take place in the next 3-4 weeks. We hope to hear from many of you on those calls, but hope you also feel free (once published) to offer comments on the license-discuss email list or via offlist email. Please look for more information on scheduling for the calls from Jess and your RPMs shortly.
For those of you attending Re: publica in Berlin in May, I will be attending the regional meeting to be held on May 1st and look forward to a productive 4.0 discussion session there.
As always, please let us know if you have questions about the process, draft or other. We look forward to hearing from you on the license-discuss list or here!
Best,
Diane
--Version 4.0 - Discussion Draft Posted for Public Comment
We are pleased to post for public comment the first discussion draft of version 4.0 [link TK]. This draft is the product of an extended (and unprecedented) requirements gathering period involving input from CC affiliates, community and stakeholders. Thanks to all of you who contributed your valuable time and energy in the policy discussions and drafting sessions in advance of this draft.
Diane M. Peters, General Counsel
Creative Commons
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