[cc-community] CC-BY content usable under GFDL
Robert Atwood
lists at atwood.org.uk
Tue May 6 07:20:25 EDT 2008
Greg London wrote:
>> It seems to me that the only way that "dealing with the copyrhight
>> holder" is not part of the equation is if its realesed completely to
>> the public domain.
>
>
> But Public Domain Style Licenses (PDSL) don't
> protect the *community* near as much as
> a good copyleft license does.
I agree with that, just saying that I don't think that this protection
comes without the necessity of sometimes having to deal with the
copyright holder. Which is more important to the author; never having to
deal with downstream users wanting some edge-case interpretation , or
protecting the community? I use cc-by-sa for music and gpl for software,
when the choice is mine alone, so I guess that's my choice as which is
more important. Nonetheless I expect it's more likely that I may have to
deal with such requests in the unlikely event that someone actualy wants
to use mine in some mixture with differently-licensed works.
Further , I don't believe that what I said applies to 'public domain
STYLE LICENSE' rather only to purely complete release (if that's legally
possible!!! in your jusridiction!! ) , that MIT or BSD is still a
license, the copyright is retained by the author isn't it? It has some
clauses that users must follow (retaining the copyright notice e.g. )
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