[WikiEN-l] So much for GFDL compatibility with cc-by-sa

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Yeah, I don't see anything in that which implies that CC-BY-SA isn't
compatible. The exact wording is:

"As your question illustrates, people have a tendency to disregard the
differences between the various Creative Commons licenses, lumping
them together as a single thing. That is as mixed-up as supposing San
Francisco and Death Valley have similar weather because they're both
in California.

"Some Creative Commons licenses are free licenses; most permit at
least noncommercial verbatim copying. But some, such as the Sampling
Licenses and Developing Countries Licenses, don't even permit that,
which makes them unacceptable to use for any kind of work. All these
licenses have in common is a label, but people regularly mistake that
common label for something substantial.

"I no longer endorse Creative Commons. I cannot endorse Creative
Commons as a whole, because some of its licenses are unacceptable. It
would be self-delusion to try to endorse just some of the Creative
Commons licenses, because people lump them together; they will
misconstrue any endorsement of some as a blanket endorsement of all. I
therefore find myself constrained to reject Creative Commons
entirely."

I'm not sure that's meant to imply license incompatibility. It sounds
to me like RMS is just saying, "I don't support Creative Commons as a
project, because some of their licenses are not free at all." However
it's clearly not the case that all CC licenses are non-free, and
whether RMS supports CC as a project may not mean anything in terms of
license compatibility.

(Personally I think it is clear that RMS would never really support
something like CC; he's very absolutist and CC is very much about
finding various forms of compromise.)

FF

On 2/9/06, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
>     http://www.linuxp2p.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=10771
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> Who was the main sticking point in discussions so far? Oh yes, that's right.
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