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Revision as of 20:03, 22 December 2010
This page identifies some of the improvements to the Creative Commons license suite from the publication of the first licenses in December, 2002, through the current version 3.0, and highlights important similarities among the major license versions released to date.
License Blog Posts
The chart below presents the major license versions, their launch dates, and blog posts calling for public comment, announcing the launch of a license suite, and explaining changes to new licenses. It also includes posts referencing unfinished version 3.x (3.01, 3.5) licenses, which are not in active discussion and may or may not ever be published. Version 3.0 is most up to date Creative Commons license suite, but the 3.x license discussions address further potential upgrades and changes that may be folded into a new version 4.0 license. The License Errata page, to which you should feel free to contribute, catalogs minor bugs in the licenses like typographical errors.
| License Version* | Header 2 | Header 3 | Header 4 | Header 5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| row 1, cell 1 | row 1, cell 2 | row 1, cell 3 | row 1, cell 4 | row 1, cell 5 |
| row 2, cell 1 | row 2, cell 2 | row 2, cell 3 | row 2, cell 4 | row 2, cell 5 |
| row 3, cell 1 | row 3, cell 2 | row 3, cell 3 | row 3, cell 4 | row 3, cell 5 |
| row 4, cell 1 | row 4, cell 2 | row 4, cell 3 | row 4, cell 4 | row 4, cell 5 |
| row 5, cell 1 | row 5, cell 2 | row 5, cell 3 | row 5, cell 4 | row 5, cell 5 |
| row 6, cell 1 | row 6, cell 2 | row 6, cell 3 | row 6, cell 4 | row 6, cell 5 |
International License Development Processes
Released 2004-05-25. Changes explained at http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/4216
License Suite Version Chart
Released 2005-06. Changes described at: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/5447 and http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/5457
Nomenclature (for unported licenses)
Released 2007-02-23. Version 3 explains the changes.
Technical measures by licensees prohibited
Version 3.01 was discussed 2007-10, work will be folded into a future version, possibly a version 3.5, proposed 2007-12, possibly a version 4.0 over a longer time period (3.01 and 3.5 are not now in active discussion and there may never be CC licenses with those version numbers).