[cc-community] CC-BY content usable under GFDL
Terry Hancock
hancock at anansispaceworks.com
Sun May 4 18:47:51 EDT 2008
drew Roberts wrote:
> Copyleft licenses can have this issue. Does BY-SA allow the addition of extra
> terms? Somehow I doub't it. I will have to check again.
It wouldn't be a copyleft if it did.
Saying that "CC-By is compatible with GPL" is equivalent to making the
claim that "the provisions that the GPL makes for attribution are at
least sufficient to satisfy the terms of CC-By".
Unfortunately, both licenses leave sufficient room for interpretation
that there exist interpretations which are incompatible. However, IMHO,
those are fringe interpretations and the statement is true for the most
likely interpretations of both licenses, so the odds of someone
successfully claiming that CC-By has been violated by GPL conversion are
extremely slim.
Or so it seems to me.
Cheers,
Terry
(Who is not a lawyer, etc).
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Terry Hancock (hancock at AnansiSpaceworks.com)
Anansi Spaceworks http://www.AnansiSpaceworks.com
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