[Foundation-l] Creative Commons CC-BY-SA Draft Statement of Intent

SlimVirgin slimvirgin at gmail.com
Sat Apr 5 06:42:11 UTC 2008


On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 1:21 AM, Delirium <delirium at hackish.org> wrote:
> Erik Moeller wrote:
>  > We are continuing our conversations about that particular aspect, and
>  > my personal hope is that we will figure out a way to clearly state
>  > through the license that adaptations such as a picture embedded into a
>  > newspaper article trigger the share-alike clause, i.e. the newspaper
>  > article would be CC-BY-SA licensed ...
>
>  I think your parenthetical permission would be extremely necessary for
>  us, because otherwise the hundreds of cc-by-sa images we have in our own
>  GFDL Wikipedia articles would have licensing problems ...
>
Sorry to be dense, but could someone explain the significance of this?
What does the new development allow or prevent that wasn't allowed or
prevented before?

Sarah



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