4.0/Drafts

Launch, drafting and process information

• Global Summit (Sept 2011), outcomes related to 4.0
• Public discussion launch (December 2011)
• 4.0 wiki detailing objectives, process, topic/issue page

Draft 1 Details

(Note that only BY-NC-SA (international) is presented in draft form, as the other licenses are easily crafted from its terms. Comments are not limited solely to this one license but should be presented on the license suite as a whole)

• Publication date: 2 April 2012
  • Blog post
  • Announcement to license-discuss
• Documents
  • 4.0d1 BY-NC-SA (international)
    • ODT
    • PDF
    • TXT
  • Side-by-side comparison to BY-NC-SA 3.0 (international), with notations
    • PDF (only)
• Introduction to draft, policies, feedback requests
• Comment period: 2 April 2012 thru May 2012
  • Regional Calls

Draft 2 Details

(Note that BY-NC-SA and BY-SA are presented. We plan to publish html versions of both licenses for easy reference during the d2 discussion process. Comments are not limited solely to these two licenses, however.

• Publication date: 1 August 2012
  • [ Blog post]
  • [ Announcement to license-discuss]
• Documents
  • 4.0d1 BY-NC-SA (international)
    • ODT
    • PDF
    • TXT
  • Side-by-side comparison to BY-NC-SA 4.0d1 (international), with abbreviated explanations
    • PDF (only)
  • 4.0d1 BY-SA (international)
    • ODT
    • PDF
    • TXT
• Introduction to draft, policies, feedback requests
• Comment period: 1 August 2012 thru 15 September 2012
  • [ Regional Calls]