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

Mia Garlick mia at creativecommons.org
Fri Mar 2 14:11:19 EST 2007


um, a collective work is the same as a collection under CC licenses.   
a collective work is the US description for what is described as a  
Collection in the Unported licenses (which are based on international  
treaties).

On Mar 2, 2007, at 2:15 AM, Antoine wrote:

>
>> 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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