4.0/Sandbox

This page is designed as a gathering place for suggestions from the community. If you have an idea for an issue that is not yet addressed in one of the issue pages linked from the 4.0 page, please follow this process:

Review the existing issue pages to see if your new idea would fit on an existing page. If so, feel free to add it yourself.
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Moral rights

There are two basic issues:

Current moral rights language is complicated, difficult to understand -- see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode section 4(d):

Except as otherwise agreed in writing by the Licensor or as may be otherwise permitted by applicable law, if You Reproduce, Distribute or Publicly Perform the Work either by itself or as part of any Adaptations or Collections, You must not distort, mutilate, modify or take other derogatory action in relation to the Work which would be prejudicial to the Original Author's honor or reputation. Licensor agrees that in those jurisdictions (e.g. Japan), in which any exercise of the right granted in Section 3(b) of this License (the right to make Adaptations) would be deemed to be a distortion, mutilation, modification or other derogatory action prejudicial to the Original Author's honor and reputation, the Licensor will waive or not assert, as appropriate, this Section, to the fullest extent permitted by the applicable national law, to enable You to reasonably exercise Your right under Section 3(b) of this License (right to make Adaptations) but not otherwise.

Some fear 4(d) causes licensee to agree to more restrictions -- how expansive is "permitted by applicable law" in removing agreement to restrictions -- and have encouraged use of US ports eg https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/legalcode which do not contain 4(d) at all or unported with a waiver of 4(d), eg http://markmail.org/message/34oisku4irs4naqe

This was previously an issue during discussion of Wikimedia migration to BY-SA, nearly prompting a version 3.01 in order to address, see discussion of possible changes to address at Version_301#Section 4(f), which should be a starting point for 4.0 proposals.