Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Rob Myers <rob AT robmyers.org>]

drew Roberts wrote:
> On Friday 02 March 2007 02:11 pm, Mia Garlick wrote:
> > um, a collective work is the same as a collection under CC licenses.
> > a collective work is the US description for what is described as a
> > Collection in the Unported licenses (which are based on international
> > treaties).
>
> So, if I read you right, the GPL seeks to control these while BY-SA doesn't. 
> Is that a fair statement?

I don't believe so.

The GPL isn't interested in work it finds itself alongside. It's 
interested in work that derives from it. For code, the FSF seem to use 
linking as their basic definition of derivation. They've had to expand 
this definition as people have tried to get cute with it.

- Rob.