Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Francesco Poli <invernomuto AT paranoici.org>]

On Sun, 1 Jan 2012 08:33:56 -0500 drew Roberts wrote:

[...]
> Perhaps to accomplish this objective it would be enough for BY-SA to allow 
> for 
> combined works with parts GPL and parts BY-SA.
> 
> The GPL would then need to do the same and in such a way that you could not 
> put code under BY-SA and keep it hidden. Or perhaps BY-SA could add a 
> source 
> requirement in this small area only?

I don't think that it's really possible to define a clear cut criterion
to distinguish "code" from "non-code".

The boundaries between program works and non-program works are blurred.

For instance, Postscript is a Turing-complete language, with even loops
and conditional statements: is a .ps file a document/image or a
program? It's both a program (interpreted by an interpreter, such as
Ghostscript) and a document or an image represented in a sophisticated
format...

Hence, I think you cannot require making source available for program
parts, while allowing source-less distribution for non-program parts.


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