Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Terry Hancock <hancock AT anansispaceworks.com>]

Mark William Darbyshire wrote:
> I've only just taken an interest in this new version of the licence and
> signed up to the mailing list. I hope I'm not saying anything stupid that
> hasn't already been covered!
> 
> If the GPL was a compatible licence, that would mean that a derivative work
> could, for example, be a GPL licensed game based on a film or story
> released
> under the BY-SA. I personally would love an aspiring programmer to pick up
> on my creativity and carry it into the world of gaming, and the GPL
> would be
> a good licence for this to be done by. Imagine some programmers making a
> game based on, as an example, Elephant's Dream (taking advantage of the
> available 3D animation files used to make the film), which would be
> released
> under the GPL and could be bundled with a GPL licensed operating system.

In most cases, there is no problem with the existing licenses. A game
engine's copyleft license does not affect the content it plays, nor does
the sharealike content license affect the engine used to play it.

IOW, no license conversion is required for the situation you propose.

OTOH, there may be some edge cases where this is not true. I tried to
come up with examples that challenge this content/player boundary.

IANAL, etc.

Cheers,
Terry


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