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

Anthony wikimail at inbox.org
Sat Apr 5 11:35:20 UTC 2008


On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 10:34 PM, Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org> 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. (Or, as I would argue, in those
>  particular cases, any other DFCW compliant license.)
>
As somewhat of a spokesman for this, I hope you'll be more careful
with your wording.  A newspaper article is only CC-BY-SA licensed if
the copyright owner(s) of the work release(s) the article under
CC-BY-SA.



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