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  • From: Evan Prodromou <evan AT wikitravel.org>
  • To: Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: Dual-licensing under the GNU Free Documentation License and Creative Commons *-ShareAlike-*
  • Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 22:40:03 -0500

On Fri, 2004-03-12 at 03:17 +0100, Wouter Vanden hove wrote:

> When creating a derivative work of a dual-licensed work, you need to
> pick a license, say GFDL.
>
> Then you have a derivative work, *only* distributable under GFDL.
> The same for BY-SA.
>
> But suppose you create two **identical** derivative works, one under
> GFDL and one under BY-SA. Then again, downstream users can pick either
> one of them to create a derivative work, if they know both versions exist.

So, you're saying that the way around the exclusivity of the GFDL and
the by-sa is to make two "different" derivative works, each under a
different license, but bitwise identical? And perhaps even occupying the
same virtual/real space? Yet somehow not "the same" derivative work?

That seems awfully hard to defend.

~ESP

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Evan Prodromou <evan AT wikitravel.org>

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