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  • From: Sarah Pearson <sarah AT creativecommons.org>
  • To: Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab AT web.de>
  • Cc: Development of Creative Commons licenses <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [cc-licenses] GPL compatibility: clarification about attribution removal
  • Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2015 17:01:34 -0500

Thanks for the email. We have been working through some final issues. We will post to this list with an update shortly. 

best,
Sarah 
  

On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 5:12 AM, Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab AT web.de> wrote:
Hi,

Are there news from the GPL compatibility process?

I consider this the biggest event for free culture in the past 5 years
and I’m eagerly hoping to see it move forward.

Best wishes,
Arne



Am Dienstag, 21. April 2015, 15:14:38 schrieb Sarah Pearson:
> Hi everyone,
>
> As you all know, we're working with the FSF to enable one-way compatibility
> from BY-SA 4.0 to the GPLv3. All signs point to this moving forward, and we
> are preparing for an announcement in early May.
>
> As we were conducting the final analysis, we discovered that I failed to
> point out one relatively significant point during the public discussion.
>
> *When BY-SA content is adapted into GPL projects, downstream users will be
> able to look to the conditions of the GPL to satisfy their obligations to
> the BY-SA licensor. GPLv3 does not contain a clause that parallels the
> attribution removal clause in BY-SA 4.0. *
>
> This point was raised during the compatibility process for the Free Art
> License on this mailing list
> <http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/cc-licenses/2014-August/007614.html>,
> but we thought it was worth calling it out again in the GPLv3 context.
>
> best,
> Sarah

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