On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 12:05 PM, 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? P.S.: Yes, the two licenses are similar in spirit. Just not in legalese.
CC-By isn't even all that similar in spirit. GFDL is copyleft.
You're allowed to take CC-By works, enhance them, then release them under more restrictive terms. This can be useful for some things (and certainly useful to the origination doing the locking up ;) ), but copyleft licenses prohibit that activity, with the expectation that doing so will expand the pool of freely licensed works.