On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 12:05 AM, Magnus Manske magnusmanske@googlemail.com wrote:
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 4:57 PM, Nathan nawrich@gmail.com wrote:
The issue of how CC-BY is not compatible with GFDL is a little opaque, to me
The GFDL does not allow relicensing under CC-BY (unless you wrote the text entirely yourself). Trying to do so is a copyright violation on your part.
Transparent enough now?
Magnus
P.S.: Yes, the two licenses are similar in spirit. Just not in legalese.
As Magnus said, they are not compatible. In the future, GFDL may be compatible with CC-BY-SA-3.0, but will never be compatible with vanilla CC-BY.
So in that sense, I would even amend what Magnus said with stronger terms -- they are not even the same in spirit.
-Andrew (User:Fuzheado)