Monthly Archives: June 2008

In the lead up to our Building an Australasian Commons event, CCau is very pleased to announce that we have (finally) finished the first drafts of our version 3.0 licences. Once these are finalised and officially launched, the Australian licences will be up-to-date with the latest version of the CC licences internationally.

But before we finalise them, we thought we’d see what others had to say about them. So we’re releasing two of the draft licences for public consultation:

Attribution (BY) and

Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (BY-NC-SA).

We’ve decided to do this for two reasons:

1. we believe in crowd sourcing – the more eyeballs who look at the licences before they go live, the better; and
   
2. we value your input – we want to make sure that the Australian CC community is happy with the changes to the licences, and get feedback on any other changes you’d like.
   

Getting everyone’s feedback on the v3.0 licences is particularly important because we’ve decided to depart slightly from our traditional drafting approach. Continue reading →