[cc-community] moved to community Re: [cc-licenses] Use cases for cc by-sa compatibility with GPL

Arne Babenhauserheide arne_bab at web.de
Sat Jan 21 13:16:09 EST 2012


Am Samstag, 21. Januar 2012, 10:32:19 schrieb drew Roberts:
> On Saturday 21 January 2012 10:14:03 Arne Babenhauserheide wrote:
> > Someone might add parts under GPL,though,and these parts would not
> > automatically be licensed under by-sa.
> 
> Add parts how. Give some examples please if you can?

There are two ways:

1. Seperable additions, like adding a chapter to a book. Probably taken from 
   GPL content.
2. Inseperable additions, like proofreading.

In the first case, you can just leave them out and you’re only by-sa again.

In the second case, it is not clear that you get additional copyright for the 
many small changes (need to ask a copyright lawyer for that). If you get a 
copyright for that, you cannot easily turn the work into cc by-sa again. If 
not, the work is still by-sa.

For the second case, I would like to have clear rules in cc by-sa: small 
changes should have to be licensed under cc by-sa. 

Stronger: If what you add does not have an identity without the cc by-sa 
content, it should be by-sa, even if it’s combined with GPL code in a bigger 
work.

> > So your reason for not wanting GPL is an additional protection which
> > *might* get added to cc by-sa 4.0? It’s nothing in by-sa 3.x?
> 
> Well, it is in 3.x for audio being used in video / film and I don't think
> the gpl would protect that either so no not exactly. I am against it for
> the lack wrt 3.x and audio and hopefully for its lack wrt all non-code
> which I hope 4.x will get.

Which parts are that? I just glanced over the legal code again, but did not 
find protection measures.

Best wishes,
Arne
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