[cc-community] CC-BY content usable under GFDL
Rob Myers
rob at robmyers.org
Sun May 4 14:32:36 EDT 2008
Matthew J. Agnello wrote:
> [...] do
> you mean CC BY and original BSD could produce a long list of authors (or
> advertising clauses), or other license requirements that would be
> practically impossible to follow?
The long list of authors problem does have the potential to affect use
of material under e.g. the FDL and BY-SA for Wikis or other large-scale
collaborative projects. Some Wikipedia pages or OpenStreetMap towns have
hundreds of authors.
> Assuming the license requirements did not conflict with one another, I
> believe you could use each license's work together provided you fill ALL
> the license requirements of each.
This document may be of use:
http://www.softwarefreedom.org/resources/2007/gpl-non-gpl-collaboration.html
(All the SFLC's publications are very good, see the tab at the top of
that page.)
- Rob.
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