[gnu.org #238740] Derivatives of dual-licensed Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike and GFDL works
wiki_tomos
wiki_tomos at inter7.jp
Thu May 5 18:06:00 EDT 2005
drew Roberts wrote:
>And if that won't work, the original author just neads to actually release it
>twice with the different licenses. Which I will do now (in abbreviated form)
>by way of example with a short poem I wrote back in high school.
>
>-----
>The following poem is release under the CC BY-SA license:
<--snip-->
>-----
>The following poem is release under the GFDL license:
<--snip-->
>
>See what I mean?
(Please be reminded that I'm not a lawyer)
This example is interesting. I think I am granted to reproduce those two separate works of
the same substance ("verbatim copying in quantity" in GFDL's sense). Do I have the right to
combine the resulting two copies into one? None in either license seem to allow me to do that.
If the original two poems were dual-licensed, would it be any different? I am not sure,
but perhaps not.
Since I do not have enough expertise to answer this question with certainty,
I tend to think that a safer approach to dual-licensing is to release a work under
a meta-license, or to request CC & FSF to insert a dual-licensing clause in their license
texts. I sketched those ideas here:
http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/cc-licenses/2004-December/001456.html
http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/cc-licenses/2004-December/001457.html
Regards,
Tomos
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