Looks good to me. On Nov 26, 2013, at 3:45 PM, Rintze Zelle <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all, > > Creative Commons just released their 4.0 licenses (see e.g. > https://twitter.com/dancohen/status/405331406622306304 ). IANAL, but > it is my understanding that we're free to upgrade all existing styles > and locales from CC BY-SA 3.0 to this license without having to > consult the original contributors. See > http://wiki.creativecommons.org/License_Versions#Compatibility_mechanism_in_BY-SA_licenses > , which says "Starting with the release of the 2.x license suites, CC > expanded compatibility by allowing contributions to adapted material > to be created under the same or later version of the original license, > including other ported versions of the same or later version of the > license". > > I'm not really sure there are big advantages for us to upgrading to > 4.0, but I think it would be a simple change to make if we wanted to. > > Rintze > > On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 10:05 AM, Rintze Zelle <[email protected]> wrote: >> I also updated the license conditions for the style repository, which seemed >> necessary, since the CC BY-SA license specifies that "[y]ou must attribute >> the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor". >> >> https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles/blob/master/README.md >> >> In short, I think we should demand that any project using CSL styles from >> the repo should publicly acknowledge this, and that >> authorship/contributorship information shouldn't be stripped from >> distributed styles. Let me know if you think the text needs changes/polish. >> >> Rintze >> >> On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 6:20 PM, Rintze Zelle <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Dear all, >>> >>> As of this moment, all the CSL styles in the style repository at >>> https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles are registered under a >>> single license, using the exact string "This work is licensed under a >>> Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License: >>> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/";. >>> >>> I added the license to styles that did not carry one, updated older >>> versions of the license, and replaced ported variants by the unported >>> version. I got permission of the style authors who had released their styles >>> under by-nc-sa licenses to switch to by-sa. >>> >>> Going forward I would like to require that any new style added to the >>> repository should use Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (I already >>> included this in our requirements: >>> https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles/wiki/Style-Requirements ). >>> >>> If anybody has an issue with any of these changes, please let me know, >>> >>> Rintze > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Shape the Mobile Experience: Free Subscription > Software experts and developers: Be at the forefront of tech innovation. > Intel(R) Software Adrenaline delivers strategic insight and game-changing > conversations that shape the rapidly evolving mobile landscape. Sign up now. > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=63431311&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > xbiblio-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xbiblio-devel -- Charles Parnot [email protected] http://app.net/cparnot twitter: @cparnot ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Shape the Mobile Experience: Free Subscription Software experts and developers: Be at the forefront of tech innovation. Intel(R) Software Adrenaline delivers strategic insight and game-changing conversations that shape the rapidly evolving mobile landscape. Sign up now. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=63431311&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ xbiblio-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xbiblio-devel
