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  • From: "Greg London" <email AT greglondon.com>
  • To: "Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts" <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: Commercial Attribution ShareAlike
  • Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 12:56:45 -0400 (EDT)

I'd think of it that way. One difference is that CC-SA doesn't
have the "source code" requirements that GNU-GPL does.
For software or similar, I'd use GNU-GPL.
For non-software content (images, text, music, etc)
then I'd use CC-SA.


Sigmascape1 AT cs.com said:
> Hi,
>
> Just out of curiousity, is the Attribution ShareAlike license kind of
> thought
> of as the "GNU GPL of creative content"? In other words, you can copy it,
> distribute all for free, but if you enhance/change/build upon it, you must,
> in
> effect, return it to the community?
>
> I am playing around with some licensing options, and have not used the
> Attribution ShareAlike license before. I see some potential with it for some
> of my works.
>
> Thanks!!
>
> MLF
>
> www.sigmascape.com
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