Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Terry Hancock <hancock AT anansispaceworks.com>]

Jason Owen wrote:
> I would like to use an icon that is licensed under the CC by-sa 2.5
> license in a program I am writing, but I wasn't able to figure out by
> reading the license whether this use would be a derivative work or not. 
> If I use that icon, would the program be considered a derivative work,
> which means I have to release the entire program under the same license as
> the icon?  Or would I simply be distributing the icon, and thus only need
> the attribution?

My understanding is that in this situation, the icon is regarded as
"data", processed by the program, rather than a part of the program
itself. Thus the icon and program can have separate licenses (e.g. it's
okay if the program is GPL and the icon is By-SA).

Cheers,
Terry

(IANAL, TINLA)

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Terry Hancock (hancock AT AnansiSpaceworks.com)
Anansi Spaceworks http://www.AnansiSpaceworks.com