Post date: Jun 30, 2010 2:16:44 AM
Status Fri Jun 25, 2010:
1. For now, we will use the 2.5 india license as is (i.e. in English, without translation).
The legal code of the 2.5 license is:
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/in/legalcode
This license provides India copyright coverage immediately with no translation work on our part.
2. The CC org is in the process of developing a 3.0 unported license set which can provide worldwide copyright coverage, when it becomes official.
These licenses are not official yet.
Aligned with the schedule in which the CC org will makes these licenses official, we will get Assamese translations of the 3.0 unported licenses ready.
Legal code of one of the 3.0 licenses is:
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode
3. As and when the 3.0 unported licenses become official, we will convert from the 2.5 India license to suitable Assamese translated 3.0 unported licenses
If you have any comments or questions on the above proposal, please let me know. Otherwise, we can proceed as above.
Another related development:
To facilitate translation of the 3.0 unported license, the main Creative Commons org has set up Assamese as a supported language in their translation platform (they have listed me as the coordinator):
http://www.transifex.net/projects/p/CC/team/as/
At this point, the possible translations are *only* for the deeds and CC License Chooser for 3.0, not the actual licenses ("legalcode"). Once the legalcode for 3.0 is final, it will be added to the platform.
Background of above decisions:
In the last two months, I had several discussions with Creative Commons about the best approach to follow given different options available to us. In this process, I had several productive email exchanges with:
Diane Peters – General Counsel, main CC org
Nathan Kinkade – Technology volunteer of the main CC org
Prof. Shishir K. Jha – IIT Bombay, India franchisee of CC
The decisions and developments above are a result of those discussions.