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[jira] [Comment Edited] (LEGAL-179) Include CC-BY as an
Apache-approved third party license
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-179?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=13799112#comment-13799112 ]
Sam Ruby edited comment on LEGAL-179 at 10/18/13 2:03 PM:
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> It is no longer a hypothetical.
What no longer is hypothetical? Can you specify a single release of a single Apache PMC that requires this? Can you describe why that is?
I will note that at the current time, there are absolutely no W3C Recommendations which ship with the CC-BY license. The overwhelming use a different license, which absolutely nobody has found a need to request be categorized as Category A.
Here is the text of the that license:
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2002/copyright-documents-20021231
was (Author: rubys):
> It is no longer a hypothetical.
What no longer is hypothetical? Can you specify a single release of a single Apache PMC that requires this? Can yo describe why that is?
I will note that at the current time, there are absolutely no W3C Recommendations which ship with the CC-BY license. The overwhelming use a different license, which absolutely nobody has found a need to request be categorized as Category A.
Here is the text of the that license:
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2002/copyright-documents-20021231
> Include CC-BY as an Apache-approved third party license
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>
> Key: LEGAL-179
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-179
> Project: Legal Discuss
> Issue Type: Question
> Reporter: Lawrence Rosen
>
> W3C Director Tim Berners-Lee has just approved the use of CC-BY as the license for the HTML Working Group and as an experiment to determine whether to use that license for other W3C specifications. Since Apache members participate in HTML development and use that W3C specification in our projects, we should add CC-BY to the Apache list of approved third-party licenses.
> /Larry
> ********** Here is what the W3C announcement said:
> "Based on extensive discussions, the Director has decided to pursue the experiment with CC-BY. The Director's view is that:
> * Despite concerns from some developers that it is not sufficiently
> liberal, CC-BY satisfies the key requirement of permitting the
> creation of derivative works.
> * A license with no attribution requirement, such as CC0, would
> not support other important W3C and community aims, as it could
> contribute to confusion rather than interoperability of the Web
> platform.
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