[OSM-legal-talk] Creative-Commons 4.0 (first draft)

[Rob Myers]

On 04/07/2012 07:14 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 04/07/2012 07:50 PM, Paul Norman wrote:
>> It looks like with the release of CC 4.0 there may be two share-alike
>> licenses suitable for data with different copyleft provisions. CC with a
>> stronger copyleft and ODbL with a weaker one that allows produced works
>> under a non-free license.
>
> I don't think it is as simple as that; the requirement to share the
> derivative database that stands behind a produced work seems to be
> "stronger" than what CC does.

But CC 4.0 also *appears* to allow intermixing unlicensed work in a way 
that either 3.0 didn't or didn't make obvious (the 4.0 licences are much 
easier to read...).

I intend to discuss this on cc-licenses.

- Rob.