License update to CC-BY 4.0
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Pepper&Carrot just received a "license update" affecting all artworks, translation, materials previously published as Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) to the updated Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) [1] .
Reasons and motivations:
- The Free Software Foundation document CC-BY 4.0 as compatible with GPL(s) licenses [2]
- Creative Commons 4.0 is designed to be more global [3] With the release of 4.0, we’re also introducing official translations of the CC licenses The 4.0 licenses are ready-to-use around the world, without porting."
- A quick table to compare 3.0 vs 4.0 [4] reveals there is no big changes on the form, just more clarity.
[1] https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
[2] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#ccby
[3] http://creativecommons.org/version4
[4] https://wiki.creativecommons.org/images/3/32/Attribution_chart_%28v3_v_d4%29_.pdf
