[cc-community] [cc-licenses] Most important feature: GPL-compatibility
Arne Babenhauserheide
arne_bab at web.de
Sat Jan 28 11:08:20 EST 2012
Am Donnerstag, 26. Januar 2012, 13:48:03 schrieb Gunnar Wolf:
> > I do think we might consider inserting a conditional source requirement
> > into the next by-sa along the lines that if the licensed work is code
> > or a computer program, source is required along the lines of the gpl or
> > even the agpl.
>
> Special-casing is bad IMO. Because if we special-case for computer
> code, we'd have to define what computer code means. We had a very long
> discussion in Debian when we had a vote ("Editorial changes" in early
> 2004 IIRC). In the end, everything that's software can be seen as
> computer code (even if its compiler can only qualify as abstract art
> ;-) ).
Wouldn’t it suffice to just allow that when combining with substantial content
under GPL?
Best wishes,
Arne
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