[cc-licenses] cc-by-sa and gpl
Prodromos Tsiavos
p.tsiavos at lse.ac.uk
Mon Jul 2 14:30:15 EDT 2007
thanks very much Paul :)
pRo
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From: "Paul Keller" <pk at kl.nl>
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Subject: Re: [cc-licenses] cc-by-sa and gpl
> nope... there were no statements regarding this during the isummit so
> i believe that there had been no movement in this field as of lately.
> but than i also did not really ask anyone... /paul
>
>
> On Jul 2, 2007, at 8:23 PM, Prodromos Tsiavos wrote:
>
>> Paul, do you by any chance know what is the status of development
>> of the CC
>> Compatible Licence list?
>>
>> many thanks
>> pRo
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Paul Keller" <pk at kl.nl>
>> To: "Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts"
>> <cc-licenses at lists.ibiblio.org>
>> Sent: Monday, July 02, 2007 9:19 PM
>> Subject: Re: [cc-licenses] cc-by-sa and gpl
>>
>>
>>> to provide some background here are two links to an article by Mia
>>> Garlik explaining the rationale behind the changes in version 3.0 of
>>> the CC licenses. the full article can be found here: http://
>>> wiki.creativecommons.org/Version_3
>>>
>>> On Jul 2, 2007, at 8:11 PM, Paul Keller wrote:
>>>
>>>> hmm. there is no point in interoperability (as in being able to
>>>> relicense something that was originally under one of the licenses
>>>> under the other): the GPL is intended for software, the CC licenses
>>>> are for works under copyright that are *not* software. as rob
>>>> explained distributing CC-BY-SA and GPL licensed works together is
>>>> fine both under the GPL and the CC-BY-SA. the only 'problem' in this
>>>> regard is the position of Debian legal. as far as i know they are
>>>> still deliberating if they are going to consider CC-BY-SA 3.0 (which
>>>> resolved most of the issues they had with the pervious versions)
>>>> free
>>>> according to the DFSG or not. one would hope that they will.
>>>
>>> see: http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Version_3#Debian
>>>
>>>>> will be see two 'prosumers' sitting on a bench, one asking "is
>>>>> that an
>>>>> 'organisation for free licences'?" and the other replying "no!
>>>>> thats a
>>>>> free license organsation!... wankers!"
>>>>>
>>>>> and i won't even get started on asking questions about the
>>>>> FDL...i've
>>>>> already made up my mind on that one...
>>>>
>>>> as i said before the GFDL is one of the obvious candidates for
>>>> inclusion in the list of CC compatible licenses. if i am not
>>>> entirely
>>>> mistaken the incompatibility between CC-BY-SA and GFDL is the main
>>>> reason for the inclusion of the compatability clause in CC-BY-SA
>>>> 3.0.
>>>> i am not really getting why the GFDL seems to be get you even more
>>>> upset when thinking about compatibility. in the case of the GFDL
>>>> there is a real need for compatibility as both licenses are intended
>>>> for the same type of works, namely non-software works protected by
>>>> copyright.
>>>
>>> see: http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Version_3#BY-
>>> SA_.E2.80.94_Compatibility_Structure_Introduced
>>>
>>> /paul
>>>
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