[Foundation-l] Creative Commons global summit, September 16-18 Warsaw, BY-SA 4.0

2011-08-23 Thread Mike Linksvayer
Registration is now open for the CC http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Global_Summit_2011 September 16-18 in Warsaw. Versioning the CC license suite will be a (the) major topic of the summit, which will launch a long process of developing version 4.0. All of the topics raised in the years before Wiki

Re: [Foundation-l] Public Domain Mark - what does this mean for us?

2010-10-13 Thread Mike Linksvayer
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Liam Wyatt wrote: > I for one am very keen to see us use this system, if for no other reason > than it leverages the existing visibility of the Creative Commons > machine-readable licensing structure. The CC-Public Domain Mark is not > actually doing anything new/

Re: [Foundation-l] Public Domain Mark - what does this mean for us?

2010-10-13 Thread Mike Linksvayer
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Ziko van Dijk wrote: > While reading the FAQ of Creative Commons about the new Public Domain > Mark, I wondered what are the consequences for our projects. Will I > use PDM in future anyhow on Commons, for example? > Hopefully the main consequence is that the PDM

Re: [Foundation-l] Creative Commons publishes report on defining "Non-commercial"

2009-09-15 Thread Mike Linksvayer
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 7:52 AM, Andrew Gray wrote: > 2009/9/15 Anthony : >> On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 5:39 AM, Hay (Husky) wrote: >>> with its 255 pages >>> this might be something that you would rather like to skim through >>> instead of fully read :) >> >> Anything to disrupt my view that the NC

Re: [Foundation-l] Licensing resolution

2009-05-27 Thread Mike Linksvayer
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Benj. Mako Hill wrote: > I'm happy to see that work is already being coordinated here: > >  http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Licensing_update/Outreach > > As many people as possible should join in this effort and spread the > word. http://creativecommons.org/weblog/

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution by URL reasoning?

2009-03-11 Thread Mike Linksvayer
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 8:25 AM, Anthony wrote: > I see you've posted a blog post ( > http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/13232) which suggests that > attribution by link was added in 2.5.  You point to this a blog post by Mia > Garlick (http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/5447) announcing

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution survey, first results

2009-03-09 Thread Mike Linksvayer
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 12:46 PM, geni wrote: > 2009/3/6 Mike Linksvayer : >> Yes. >> >> Mike (not the CC counsel but just spoke to her) > > And what was the exact wording of the question asked and what was the > line of reasoning? The question was whether attributio

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution survey, first results

2009-03-06 Thread Mike Linksvayer
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 4:19 AM, Thomas Dalton wrote: > 2009/3/4 Erik Moeller : >> 2009/3/3 Thomas Dalton : >>> Excellent. Getting some idea of community opinion is very important. >>> However, has anyone carried out my suggestion of consulting with the >>> CC lawyers? >> >> We've been in repeated

Re: [Foundation-l] Licensing interim update

2009-02-03 Thread Mike Linksvayer
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Sam Johnston wrote: > CC are most likely to go along with what is sensible and are very > likely to listen to WMF when defining 'sensible'. I have little doubt that's the case. > The license as it is > is pretty damn close to good enough (hence the dropping of the

Re: [Foundation-l] RfC: License update proposal

2009-02-02 Thread Mike Linksvayer
On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 4:11 AM, Gerard Meijssen wrote: > We are discussing all kinds of "arguments" around the license change from > GFDL to CC-by-sa. I am not impressed at all by the quality of the arguments. > It seems to me that there are two trains of thought. There are the people > who want T

Re: [Foundation-l] RfC: License update proposal

2009-01-26 Thread Mike Linksvayer
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 7:56 AM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote: > WMF used to really be a (choose a heavy-weight designation) pound > gorilla in the GFDL users pool. > > When we transition to the Creative Commons universe, we will > never again regain that status, and a combative stance will > do us

Re: [Foundation-l] RfC: License update proposal

2009-01-21 Thread Mike Linksvayer
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 8:50 AM, Mike Godwin wrote: > Anthony writes: > >> "the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License" >> >> There are over 100 Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike Licenses. > > [citation needed] There are 74 due to versioning and jurisdiction ports, see http://cre