[cc-licenses] [Commons-l] Requirements for a strong copyleft license

Javier Candeira javier at candeira.com
Mon Dec 3 00:05:57 EST 2007


Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> On Dec 2, 2007 4:52 AM, Javier Candeira <javier at candeira.com> wrote:
>> Gregory Maxwell wrote:
>>> I do not believe there is any point to having a copyleft license for
>>> media which isn't strong.  Does anyone here disagree?
>> I do, my photos are by-sa but newspaper using them for illustration doesn't
>> have to be (that's my intention when licensing, at least them), as long as
>> the photos themselves are labeled with the proper attribution and licensing.
> 
> Greetings.  Why not use the cc-by license instead?  It has the same
> attribution behavior as cc-by-sa.

Because I want to allow for modifications: paint on my photos and modify
them to make posters or desktop backgroun ds, make an animation or a
slideshow of them, improve my panoramas of which I post the "source" (a .xcf
gimp file)... and in those cases I would like the copyleft rule apply.

J




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