This may be of interest to some of you, since our user guides are under a Creative Commons license. --Jean
Begin forwarded message: > From: "Creative Commons" <[email protected]> > Date: 21 December 2011 3:00:05 GMT+10:00 > To: "Ms. Jean Weber" <[email protected]> > Subject: Public Discussion for Version 4.0 of the CC Licenses Underway > Reply-To: "Creative Commons" <[email protected]> > > Dear CC Supporter, > > We are very pleased to let you know that after a full year in the planning > and preparation phase, we have launched the public discussion process for > Version 4.0 of the Creative Commons license suite. As someone who is > interested in the future of CC, we invite you to participate in this > discussion, which you can read more about here. > > Stewardship is not a responsibility that CC takes lightly; nor is it a > responsibility that anyone in our community can take lightly if we are to be > successful in promoting the open values we share. Our licenses provide the > infrastructure on which communities like Wikipedia, Flickr, Open Courseware, > and the Public Library of Science depend and, still more importantly, thrive. > Our charge as license stewards is to ensure a healthy and transparent > discussion process that accounts for and anticipates shifts in public policy > and legal developments taking place around the world. Unfortunately, that > work isn't free. > > If license versioning is not up your alley, you can still show your support > by donating to our annual campaign going on now. Our legal efforts are on > your behalf. Help support CC at this critical juncture, where we are building > the license suite on which all of us will depend for the next decade and > beyond, and help us achieve our goal of creating the most robust license > suite yet. > > We look forward to hearing from you. > > Best wishes for a happy holiday season, > > Diane Peters > > CC General Counsel > > > p.s. Don't forget to let your friends and family know that all CC donations > will be matched, dollar-for-dollar, through December 25 up until $100,000! > > > (To opt-out of any future mailings such as these from Creative Commons, > simply send a message to this address: > mailto:[email protected]) > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
