[cc-licenses] Does BY-SA do what I think it does?

Cameron McCormack cam at mcc.id.au
Tue Jun 6 23:31:40 EDT 2006


Hi Terry.

Terry Hancock:
> Your stated intent tells me you would be much happier with the
> "GNU Lesser General Public License" (LGPL), which is fairly standard
> for the type of application you describe.  It applies copyleft protection
> to the library itself, while not affected software that merely links to
> it:
> 
> GNU LGPL:
> http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html
> http://creativecommons.org/license/cc-lgpl?lang=
> 
> (Despite FSF attempts to dissuade you from using LGPL, it is actually
> a VERY popular license for libraries -- for precisely the reason you
> bring up).

I wonder what the implications are of changing to the LGPL from BY-SA.
Must all future revisions of my library also be available for use under
BY-SA, since it was at one time distributed under that licence?  Are
there any issues with it being available under both BY-SA and LGPL?

I suppose it would be ideal if I can just switch to LGPL and forget the
BY-SA altogether.

Thanks,

Cameron

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