[cc-licenses] Clarification needed - Copyleft AND Share-Alike with Images

Mike Linksvayer ml at creativecommons.org
Thu Feb 15 21:12:55 EST 2007


On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 20:17 -0500, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> Even still, I don't feel very able to choose when I find
> out that SA isn't a proper copyleft

IANAL but will be incredibly surprised to find that the FDL or GPL work
any differently.  CC BY-SA is copyleft -- copyleft just doesn't work the
way you hoped, because your understanding that placing an unaltered
photo alongside text creates a derivative of the photo was incorrect.

> or that NC is being redesigned so
> that Web 2.0 profiteers can make a quick buck off the work of those
> who have selected NC licenses.

It looks to me like there is zero change in the NC language (4(b) in
BY-NC) between 2.5 licenses and 3.0 drafts.

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