Development of Creative Commons licenses

["Erik Moeller" <erik AT wikimedia.org>]

On 2/12/07, Terry Hancock <hancock AT anansispaceworks.com> wrote:
> It would be ruinous to the movement if, for example, it became
> impossible to use (i.e. reference) GFDL, By-SA, FAL, By, Expat, and/or
> GPL images in a single HTML document.  In fact, in my own experience, it
> has been generally bad enough even that I can't combine GFDL images with
>  CC-By-SA images within Gimp for use with an article.  We don't need a
> stronger copyleft than that.

This can be dealt with by simply prescribing that works used in a
semantic interdependency must be all under a "compatible license",
using a similar whitelist that is now being developed for CC-BY-SA
3.0. The works remain separately licensed, but copyleft requires that
they all are _freely_ licensed.

--
Peace & Love,
Erik

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