[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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