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  • From: "Luis Villa" <luis AT tieguy.org>
  • To: "Jon Phillips" <jon AT rejon.org>
  • Cc: cc-devel AT lists.ibiblio.org, Jesse Warden <jesse.warden AT gmail.com>
  • Subject: Re: [cc-devel] Google Code
  • Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 00:10:07 -0500

On 1/24/07, Jon Phillips <jon AT rejon.org> wrote:
On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 17:35 -0800, Mike Linksvayer wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 17:04 -0500, Jesse Warden wrote:
> > I don't know Chris personally, but as much as I can tell from emails,
> > he doesn't believe it is an effective license for software
> > development, feels that the document & UI elements that CC can also be
> > applied to are not something Google Code currently focuses on, and
> > bottom line feels that it runs contrary to keep the amount of licenses
> > low.
>
>
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/FAQ#Can_I_use_a_Creative_Commons_license_for_software.3F

Yes, CC licenses are not for software. CC recommends using GNU GPL and
LGPL for source code. Hence, Google Code is right on point with not
using CC licenses in this way.

That said, there are projects that will use Google Code that should
appropriately be 'license X for code, license Y for art/docs/etc.' It
might not be unreasonable to discuss mixed-license scenarios with the
Google Code folks at some point, and let them know that that is a
scenario they should consider for the future. (Esp. if more licenses
become more cross-compatible in the future as we expect with GPL v3
and other new licenses.)

Luis




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