[cc-community] [cc-licenses] Use cases for cc by-sa compatibility with GPL

Ben Finney bignose+hates-spam at benfinney.id.au
Sat Jan 21 19:41:35 EST 2012


Anthony <osm at inbox.org> writes:

> And by Free, you mean that it meets The Free Software Definition.
>
> So, what you want is for CC-BY-SA 4.0 to be the GPL.

The Free Software Definition is not a license. It's a described set of
freedoms.

Many licenses meet the Free Software Definition. Also, “compatible with
the GPL” does not entail “identical to the GPL”.

I see this discussion as fruitful because we can hopefully find an
change to the CC BY-SA terms that would make them GPL-compatible.

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