[cc-community] CC-BY content usable under GFDL
Greg London
email at greglondon.com
Sun May 4 22:32:34 EDT 2008
> And of course the key point about the CC-BY license, in
> contrast, is that it doesn't have the Share-Alike term,
> and so *does* let you add more terms - e.g. putting it
> under a GFDL license.
But GNU's licenses are all "share alike", which means GNU
won't let you add CC-BY restrictions to GNU.
> Anyway, it's the intention of the licensor that matters,
> if it doesn't contradict the clear wording of the license.
But if intent *does* contradict the wording of the license,
then the license wins, regardless of intent.
> It seems there is no clear wording to stop us using
> CC-BY content in our GFDL content,
I'm not entirely certain that's true.
CC-BY requires attribution "appropriate to the medium".
I don't think GNU requires that level of attribution.
If you want to use something that is a
public-domain-style-license like CC-BY,
but is compatible with GNU copyleft,
then use the MIT license or
the newer BSD with no advertising clause.
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