license incompatibility
Posted on: Fri, 2005-12-23 12:45
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license incompatibility
Here's a nice article (two pages):
http://www.technologyreview.com/InfoTech/wtr_16073,300,p1.html
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"But isn't there a way to make CC licenses compatible with GNU ones (as well as with each other)?"
The only way may be dual-licensing.
However I don't think practically this is a problem as long as no one uses the CC by or by-sa license for programs.
also from what Debian said the CC licenses are flawed:
http://people.debian.org/~mjr/legal/licences.html
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Libervisco wrote:
But isn't there a way to make CC licenses compatible with GNU ones (as well as with each other)?
second page of the article:
Creative Commons is working to address exactly that issue. Lessig says he expects to announce new language for appropriate Creative Commons licenses in January 2006, language that will allow one-way compatibility with the Free Documentation License -- meaning people creating works under the FDL would be free to use Creative Commons-licensed content. (In this case, the relevant Creative Commons licenses needing modification are the “attribution by” and “attribution share-alike” licenses.)
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