[cc-licenses] Regarding SA and "strong copyleft" question

Antoine antoine at pitrou.net
Fri Mar 2 05:15:58 EST 2007


> So, the BY-SA decided not to apply to collective works but the GPL decided
> to
> apply to collective works. ??? Is that right?

No.
"Collective works" and "collections" are not the same thing.
A collective work is a single cohesive work that has been worked on by
several people. A collection of works is, well... a collection.

As Rob I think the GPL's "mere aggregation" is equivalent to the
CC-by-sa's "collections".






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