[cc-licenses] Share-alike != Copyleft ?

Roger Chrisman roger at rogerchrisman.com
Mon Feb 12 02:33:58 EST 2007


Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> I'm looking for a little clarification: Is share-alike actually the
> same as copyleft?

Devil's in the details

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyleft#Strong_and_weak_copyleft

Copyleft has lesser and stronger licenses associated with it, e.g. LGPL 
and PGL.

Is CC-by-sa a lesser copyleft license rather than a stronger copyleft 
license? I don't know.

Anyone know? 

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