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  • From: Daniel Carrera <dcarrera AT math.umd.edu>
  • To: Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: Concerns: CC-BY and Debian
  • Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 22:21:14 -0500

Greg London wrote:

> What I don't understand is why you go from the CC-BY license
> which is nearly Public Domain and jump to a copyleft license (GPL),
> which is much more restrictive than CC-BY and the various
> Public Domain licenses.
>
> CC-BY is much closer to something like BSD than something like GPL.

Greg, I am not leaving the CC-BY. I love the CC-BY, I think it's great.
The GPL is included as an alternative. It's *dual* licensing. And there
are some benefits to using the GPL instead of FDL. For one, it allows
mixing with the GPL. So, for example, we could consider using that work.

But in any event, I'm very happy with a dual CC-BY / GPL. For one, I get
to use the CC-BY, which I really like.

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