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Re: [gnu.org #238740] Derivatives of dual-licensed Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike and GFDL works
- From: Evan Prodromou <evan AT wikitravel.org>
- To: licensing AT fsf.org
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- Subject: Re: [gnu.org #238740] Derivatives of dual-licensed Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike and GFDL works
- Date: Fri, 06 May 2005 06:30:49 -0400
On Thu, 2005-05-05 at 18:38 -0400, Dave Turner via RT wrote:
> 1a) Does "precisely this License" mean that you can't dual-license?
>
> No.
Huzzah. That's the answer I was looking for. Thank you very much.
> > Anyways, making a derivative work available under an identical license
> > isn't a _permission_ granted by a copyleft license; it's a
> > _requirement_ that licensees have to meet in order to exercise other
> > permissions.
>
> You may not create or distribute derivative works without permission.
> Licenses grant permissions. It's a bit odd to describe this as a
> requirement, but I don't think it matters either way.
Yeah, this is probably going a little far, but: the permission is that
you can make derivative works. The requirement is that those derivative
works have to be available under an identical license. Permission, with
reservation.
> > I'm going to take your response to mean either that a) the GFDL is
> > like License X, so a GFDL/Attribution-ShareAlike dual license is more
> > like case 3 than case 2, or b) my understanding of case 2 above is
> > somehow flawed.
>
> Actually, I think this is like case 1, but as I said, I won't speak for
> CC here.
Excellent. Either way, 1 or 3, people can make dual-licensed derivative
works of dual-licensed originals.
> I'm still not convinced of the possibility of licenses like U for the
> reasons I specify in my other message (how would you enforce one?).
Yeah, I dunno. I guess I'm just glad to know that the FSF's
interpretation of the FDL isn't so exclusive.
Thanks again,
~Evan
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Evan Prodromou <evan AT wikitravel.org>
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Re: [gnu.org #238740] Derivatives of dual-licensed Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike and GFDL works
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- Re: [gnu.org #238740] Derivatives of dual-licensed Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike and GFDL works, Greg London, 05/05/2005
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Re: [gnu.org #238740] Derivatives of dual-licensed Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike and GFDL works,
Wouter Vanden hove, 05/05/2005
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Re: [gnu.org #238740] Derivatives of dual-licensed Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike and GFDL works,
Evan Prodromou, 05/05/2005
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Re: [gnu.org #238740] Derivatives of dual-licensed Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike and GFDL works,
drew Roberts, 05/05/2005
- Re: [gnu.org #238740] Derivatives of dual-licensed Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike and GFDL works, Evan Prodromou, 05/05/2005
- Re: [gnu.org #238740] Derivatives of dual-licensed Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike and GFDL works, drew Roberts, 05/06/2005
- Re: [gnu.org #238740] Derivatives of dual-licensed Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike and GFDL works, wiki_tomos, 05/05/2005
- Re: [gnu.org #238740] Derivatives of dual-licensed Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike and GFDL works, drew Roberts, 05/06/2005
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Re: [gnu.org #238740] Derivatives of dual-licensed Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike and GFDL works,
drew Roberts, 05/05/2005
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Re: [gnu.org #238740] Derivatives of dual-licensed Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike and GFDL works,
Evan Prodromou, 05/05/2005
- Re: [gnu.org #238740] Derivatives of dual-licensed Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike and GFDL works, Evan Prodromou, 05/06/2005
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Re: [gnu.org #238740] Derivatives of dual-licensed Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike and GFDL works,
drew Roberts, 05/06/2005
- Re: [gnu.org #238740] Derivatives of dual-licensed Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike and GFDL works, Evan Prodromou, 05/06/2005
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