On Dec 4, 2007 12:04 AM, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
On Dec 3, 2007 11:53 AM, Jimmy Wales jwales@wikia.com wrote: [snip]
If you take my cc-by-sa image and modify it, I insist that your modified version be made available under cc-by-sa. If you merely use my image *near* something else, then I do not insist that your entire work be made available under cc-by-sa, because I do not believe that your newspaper article is a "derivative work" of my photograph. (There can be edge cases, of course, but they are a bit difficult to construct.) A desire for "strong copyleft" should not lead us into overly expansive claims of copyright on interactions that do not actually constitute the making of a derivative work.
Jimmy, intentionally or not you're addressing a strawman. No one *here* has advocated that any copyleft license would only permit you to use a covered work if everything 'near' it is freely licensed, as such it's not helpful to refute that position.
FWIW, I've advocated that position, but there's no need to refute my extreme views. :)