[cc-community] CC or GPL source code that creates art

drew Roberts zotz at 100jamz.com
Wed Mar 18 07:29:40 EDT 2009


On Wednesday 18 March 2009 00:35:37 Gisle Hannemyr wrote:
> On 18.03.2009 03:20, Tom Sparks wrote:
> > can the source code that create art be placed under CC?
>
> Yes.
>
> Source code for a computer program is a copyrightable, creative work,
> so I can't see any problem placing it under CC.
>
> Gnu GPL (General Public License) is probably a more popular choice
> for source code (and corresponds roughly with CC BY-SA), but if
> you prefer CC, go ahead and use it!

Make sure that you understand that you will be forgoing the source code 
requirement protection which the GPL has and BY-SA does not have.

drew


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