Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Gisle Hannemyr <gisle AT ifi.uio.no>]

On 2014-05-08 00:41, Anthony wrote:
> On Wed, May 7, 2014 Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab AT web.de> wrote:
>> Rob Myers wrote:

>>> Should CC just deprecate BY-SA and declare the GPL to be version 5?
>>> If not, why not? Which of the objectives for compatibility would
>>> not be achieved by this?

>> It should not: The GPL brings huge practical hassles for stuff like
>> multitrack recordings and graphical art. If you run a project which
>> needs the GPL to have real copyleft, then you already have most of
>> the infrastructure for dealing with that (versioned dependencies,
>> build systems, asset-repositories and so forth), but if you do not,
>> then releasing under the GPL requires quite some effort.

I second that.

> What specifically are the problems with applying the GPL to graphical
> art?

GPL requires the *source material* to be made available along with the
work.   Most digitally graphical art are created by means of multiple
layers of fonts, paths, bitmaps, masks and versioning.  These layers,
etc. may be several orders of magnitude larger than the finished
artwork.  Making those assets publicly available may be a burden for
the artist, and not always feasible.  For instance, some of these
components (fonts. masks, clip-art) may carry licensing terms that
say it is legal to release them to the public in the shape of a
composite work, but not as source material.

> How will these problems be solved by someone who wants to incorporate
> CC-BY-SA graphical art in a GPL work?

I've no idea, I've never wanted to use GPL for stuff that are not
conventional computer programs written in a high-level conventional
programming language.

> Versioned dependencies, build systems, asset-repositories....do these
> apply to graphical art?

Yup!

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