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  • From: Anthony <osm AT inbox.org>
  • To: Development of Creative Commons licenses <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>, drew Roberts <zotz AT 100jamz.com>
  • Subject: Re: [cc-licenses] Use cases for cc by-sa compatibility with GPL
  • Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 20:56:15 -0500

On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 12:00 PM, drew Roberts <zotz AT 100jamz.com> wrote:
> I don't want my BY-SA works usable under the GPL in such a way that they can
> be pulled out of a GPL program back into the original art/music space and be
> under the gpl and not BY-SA.
>
> I want my BY-SA works to be usable alongside GPL code in some greater work
> that is a hybrid of code and art. (Or some greater non-work?)
>
> This may take some fancy doing to achieve if it is even possible. So far
> people assure me it is impossible but not in such a way that convinces me
> they understand the possibilities I suggest.

It is possible. But (to the extent the hybrid is a derivative work)
it would require changes to the GPL, as well as to CC-BY-SA.




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