[cc-community] “I thought cc-by-sa is GPL compatible” and license incompatibility woes
Ben Finney
bignose+hates-spam at benfinney.id.au
Wed Apr 11 02:20:52 EDT 2012
Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab at web.de> writes:
> 2 months ago we discussed about GPL compatibility
Thank you for reporting back with some actual experience in dealing with
this issue.
> and 2 main points were raised against it:
>
> * Artists who want GPL compatibility can just dual license, and
They can, but (as you point out) this depends on the need occurring to
them. Licensing music under the GPL is not something likely to occur to
most authors of those works.
> * If you want to use old content under GPL, just ask the artist if you
> may relicense
That's terrible advice.
You could say the same for any license: contact the copyright holder in
every instance! You're right to point out that this just isn't a
practical response.
> In short: We need GPL compatibility. This is one more usecase.
Thanks again.
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