Confusion over conflicting licenses

Greg London email at greglondon.com
Sat Apr 30 20:34:33 EDT 2005


Serge Wroclawski said:
> Work A has an Attribution Non-Commercial
> Work B has Attribution ShareAlike
> Work C has Attribution Only
>
> I can use Work A and C or B and C, but not A and B in the same work. A
> and B are mutually exclusive, since to comply with B I must be
> ShareAlike, and to comply with A, I must be Non-Commercial.

ShareAlike doesn't let you change the license.
All other CC acronyms are cumulative.
CC-BY plus CC-NC =  CC-BY-NC

All licenses prevent anyone from putting LESS
restrictions on the work.

The point of sharealike is specifically so that
downstream folks cant put MORE restrictions
on the work.

All other licenses allow people to put MORE restrictions
on the work.


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