[Foundation-l] Creative Commons CC-BY-SA Draft Statement of Intent

[Milos Rancic]

I have three comments related to us:

- I don't care for the name of a particular license. If CC is willing
to keep relaxed version of BY-SA, they should do that. However, "CC
Wiki license" (whatever it will be) should address our needs.
- I would really like to see that CC is working on our license with
FSF and/or Software Freedom Law Center. At least to consult them about
the conditions. Actually, I am interested to hear what do those two
organizations have to say about the new conditions.
- If we are willing to keep "... or any later version of the
license..." inside of our documents (are we?), I would like to see
much more active position of WMF in the process of making new versions
of the license. Let's say, our lawyer(s) (Mike or whoever) should
periodically inform us about new moments in licensing development and
what do other relevant institutions (FSF, SFLC, MIT, FSF Europe...)
think about them.

On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 4:34 AM, Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> The folks at Creative Commons have posted a draft statement of intent
>  regarding the CC-BY-SA license:
>
>  http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Draft_Attribution-ShareAlike_Intent
>
>  I've just read through it, and I'm really, really happy. Through this
>  statement, CC has taken a first stab at defining in detail their
>  intentions as stewards of the license. This is key to building trust
>  with the Wikimedia community and other stakeholders in the free
>  culture movement.
>
>  The statement of intent clarifies a number of key points, including a
>  commitment to keep the license in compliance with the Definition of
>  Free Cultural Works, and a strong promise to only broaden, but not
>  narrow the definition of what constitutes an adaptation under the
>  terms of the license.
>
>  We are continuing our conversations about that particular aspect, and
>  my personal hope is that we will figure out a way to clearly state
>  through the license that adaptations such as a picture embedded into a
>  newspaper article trigger the share-alike clause, i.e. the newspaper
>  article would be CC-BY-SA licensed. (Or, as I would argue, in those
>  particular cases, any other DFCW compliant license.)
>
>  You can post comments regarding the draft on the wiki talk page, or on
>  the cc-licenses mailing list:
>  http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/cc-licenses
>
>  This is a really important development, and I hope that everyone who
>  cares about the future of free culture licenses will get involved in
>  these conversations. :-)
>
>  My congratulations go to Creative Commons for taking this initiative.
>
>  --
>  Erik Möller
>  Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation
>
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