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  • From: Kat Walsh <kat AT creativecommons.org>
  • To: Development of Creative Commons licenses <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [cc-licenses] Compatibility open issue #1: attribution
  • Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 10:26:51 -0700

I agree with all of the points you made on this. But to keep the
discussion focused, here we're looking for what should happen going
the other direction: what the attribution requirements should be for
licenses that CC BY-SA would be one-way compatible toward.

-Kat

On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 6:52 PM, Tyng-Ruey Chuang <trc AT iis.sinica.edu.tw>
wrote:
> I echo the view that attribution need not be a prerequisite when
> considering whether a license is one-way compatible to a CC BY-SA
> license. As Kat mentioned, public domain dedication (like CC0)
> does not demand attribution. There also exists (though retired)
> CC SA 1.0 license which does not have an attribution element.
>
>> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/sa/1.0/
>
>
> For me, it will be not natural to say, just because of the difference
> in attribution requirement, neither CC0 nor CC SA 1.0 is one-way
> compatible to a CC BY-SA license.
>
> best,
> Tyng-Ruey
>
> On 5/4/14 8:17 AM, Luis Villa wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 9:57 AM, Francesco Poli <invernomuto AT paranoici.org
>> <mailto:invernomuto AT paranoici.org>> wrote:
>>
>> Personally, I think there should be adequate room for differences in
>> the attribution requirement (if such a requirement is needed at all in
>> the candidate license). Otherwise it may happen that no license will
>> ever be considered as Compatible...
>>
>>
>> I suspect Francesco is right and this will have to be a case-by-case
>> analysis. If you don't want to do a case-by-case analysis, the right way to
>> go about this is probably to analyze and compare the requirements of all
>> the
>> licenses you're currently considering for this - e.g., GPLs, OGLs, etc.
>> Without that sort of systematic analysis this question probably can't go
>> anywhere.
>>
>> Luis
>>
>>
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