[jira] [Closed] (LEGAL-179) Include CC-BY as an Apache-approved third party license

["Lawrence Rosen (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-179?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Lawrence Rosen closed LEGAL-179.
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Closed because W3C will probably not use CC-BY after all.

> Include CC-BY as an Apache-approved third party license
> -------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: LEGAL-179
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-179
>             Project: Legal Discuss
>          Issue Type: Question
>            Reporter: Lawrence Rosen
>            Assignee: Sam Ruby
>
> 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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