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Re: [cc-licenses] Most important feature: GPL-compatibility

From: Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab AT web.de>
To: cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [cc-licenses] Most important feature: GPL-compatibility
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 07:22:26 +0100

Am Mittwoch, 11. Januar 2012, 11:53:24 schrieb Gunnar Wolf:
> AFAICT, no (general use) license allows you to relicense its content
> into some other one. Authors wanting to grant you such a right usually
> double-license their works. What we need to ensure is that CC4 and GPL
> projects can be used together/bundled/linked.

It seems that Mozilla (=Firefox) just changed that.

http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/mpl-2.0-release

“The Mozilla Public License version 2.0 is out—and GPL-compatible!”

If they can do it, cc by-sa can do it, too.

Best wishes,
Arne
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Re: [cc-licenses] Most important feature: GPL-compatibility , (continued)
- Re: [cc-licenses] Most important feature: GPL-compatibility, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, 01/02/2012
- Re: [cc-licenses] Most important feature: GPL-compatibility, drew Roberts, 01/02/2012
- Re: [cc-licenses] Most important feature: GPL-compatibility, Arne Babenhauserheide, 01/02/2012
- Re: [cc-licenses] Most important feature: GPL-compatibility, Gunnar Wolf, 01/11/2012
  - Re: [cc-licenses] Most important feature: GPL-compatibility, Rob Myers, 01/11/2012
    - Re: [cc-licenses] Most important feature: GPL-compatibility, Gunnar Wolf, 01/24/2012
  - Re: [cc-licenses] Most important feature: GPL-compatibility, Arne Babenhauserheide, 01/13/2012