Development of Creative Commons licenses

[rob AT robmyers.org]

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.