Development of Creative Commons licenses

[adam hyde <adam AT xs4all.nl>]

On Mon, 2007-07-02 at 16:43 +0100, Andres Guadamuz wrote:
> Dear Adam,
> 
> As far as I know, there is an official list of compatible licences, which is
> empty at the moment. See:
> 
> http://creativecommons.org/compatiblelicenses
> 

thanks - thats an interesting resource. It states:

"Creative Commons approves licenses as compatible when they, at a
minimum, contain terms that have the same purpose, meaning and effect as
the key license elements of a particular Creative Commons license and
when a license explicitly permits the relicensing of derivatives of
works made available under that license under a particular Creative
Commons license."


It would seem the GPL would not be 'compatible' under these terms as the
GPL does not explicitly permit: "the relicensing of derivatives of works
made available under that license under a particular Creative Commons
license"

The gpl does not do this. However, how does the CC-GPL fit into this
picture? :
http://creativecommons.org/license/cc-gpl


Its the GPL with a CC wrapper...is the CC-GPL considered to be living
within the CC family of licenses? If so, then the CC-GPL is 'compatible'
and the question is answered.

is there anyone that can clarify this? 

Just to retour...My specific question is:

Can content under the CC-BY-SA (3.0) be distributed under the GPL? ie.
Is the GPL or 'CC-GPL' a 'similar' or 'compatible' license as per the
license statement :
"you may distribute the resulting work only under the same, similar or a
compatible license."

anyone want to make me a happy camper with a categorical yes or no? ;)

The reason _why_ this is an interesting question for me is that
documentation about free software is often written in CC BY-SA. If this
material can be then distributed under the GPL then the docs could be
distributed with source code without causing developers extra license
headaches.


adam


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> 
> Andres
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: cc-licenses-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
> [mailto:cc-licenses-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of adam hyde
> Sent: 02 July 2007 15:38
> To: cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: [cc-licenses] cc-by-sa and gpl
> 
> hi,
> 
> I was wondering...Can material that is licensed under the CC-BY-SA (3.0)
> license be re-issued under the GPL.
> 
> I know the two licenses are not compatible. However the clause states:
> "you may distribute the resulting work only under the same, similar or a
> compatible license."
> 
> What exactly does 'similar' mean? Is the GPL sufficently 'similar' to the
> CC-BY-SA?
> 
> adam
> 
> 
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