[cc-community] CC-BY content usable under GFDL
drew Roberts
zotz at 100jamz.com
Sun May 4 11:37:41 EDT 2008
On Sunday 04 May 2008 11:26:41 Matthew J. Agnello wrote:
> Since CC BY has no license requirements other than attribution, I
> would think it could be used in any work as long as attribution is
> given, including ARR work. Hopefully the Wikimedia's request for true
> interoperability will finally get filled by CC and FSF; I know it's
> been on the table for some time now.
There can still be problems,can't there?... See the Original BSD and GPL
issues:
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html#OriginalBSD
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/bsd.html
>
> Best,
> // Matt
all the best,
drew
>
>
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> Matthew J. Agnello
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> On May 4, 2008, at 6:44 AM, Chris Watkins wrote:
> > After some digging, I discovered that CC-by material can be used
> > under GFDL - which is very good news.
> >
> > It seems strange that this info is buried rather than prominently on
> > the CC site, but the source is James Grimmelmann, a law academic,
> > and it seems like he should know. I added the source link to the CC
> > wiki, at
> > http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Interoperability_between_Creative_Commons
> >_licenses_and_GFDL#CC-by
> >
> > It does seem that there should be some more official statement on
> > the CC site, from CC and/or FSF - the source I have is a one word
> > answer on a mailing list (even if it is from someone who should know).
> >
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