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  • From: rob AT robmyers.org
  • To: Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>, Greg London <email AT greglondon.com>
  • Subject: Re: [cc-licenses] Creative Commons & Copyleft question?
  • Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 10:26:08 +0100

Quoting Greg London <email AT greglondon.com>:

If you want to get really extreme, one could always
attempt to lobby for a copyleft license that requires
that the work can only be -distributed- with copylefted
works,

The GPL for example doesn't do this. You can distribute GPL works with non-GPL
works quite happily. IIRC this was an explicit decision on Stallman's part to
help propagate GPL software.

(GPL2 refers to this as "mere aggregation". I don't know whether "aggregation"
is a US law term or not, but the Berne Convention refers to anthologies, which
is a similar concept.)

- Rob.





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