[cc-community] CC-BY-SC (Strong Copyleft / Source Code / whatever)

Maciej Pendolski beholder0x100 at gmail.com
Wed Jan 4 16:31:54 EST 2012


I have an idea for yet another CC licence (like there weren't too many
of them already). I'm thinking of a licence which would pretty much be
a slight modification [A]GPLv3 to make it more CCish and at the same
time would add a two-way "compatibility"/"glue" with CC-BY-SA
(similarly to GPLv3-AGPLv3 "compatibility"/"glue" where each part is
licenced under its own licence) and a one-way [opt-out?]
"compatibility" with GPLv3+. This is what it would look like
(compatibility):

CC-BY 4.0 --> CC-BY-SA 4.0 +==+ CC-BY-SC 4.0 --> GPLv3+

This would mean that I could e.g. create a game engine under CC-BY-SC,
create some content for game and licence it under CC-BY-SC and/or
CC-BY-SA and/or CC-BY, take some other CC-BY-SC, CC-BY-SA, CC-BY
content and it would all work nicely (hopefully). Someone could use my
game engine under GPLv3+ (as a whole or parts of it mixed with own
code) (unless I would opt out), CC-BY-SC content could be used in
games which have their engines and content licenced under GPLv3[+] and
content creators could use my CC-BY-SC content with their CC-BY-SA
works. And there would be no discussions about game content<->engine
licence compatibility (when using CC licences mentioned above).

Perhaps it would also make sense to allow CC-BY-SA content creators to
opt-out from CC-BY-SC or/and GPLv3+ "compatibility"/"glue"?

What do you think about it? Was there any attempt at it already?


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