What about "Attribution" (by:) and "No Derivative Works" (=) ?
Aoineko
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jimmy Wales" jwales@bomis.com To: wikipedia-l@Wikimedia.org Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 10:04 PM Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] Creative Commons Licence
Guillaume Blanchard wrote:
Could somebody summarize me (in simple english if possible) the use potential of the Creative Commons Licence on Wikipedia ? I suppose that
can
relate to only the medias (pictures, sounds, etc.). Thanks.
Under Clause 7 of the GNU FDL, a compilation consisting of separate and independent documents or works (such as text and an image for example, which are inherently separate and independent by their nature) is considered an "aggregate" which permits different licenses for the different works therein, so long as the copyright resulting from the compilation is not used to limit the legal rights of the compilation's users beyond what the individual works permit.
In plain language, this means that images may have a different license from the GNU FDL and this is no violation of the GNU FDL.
For our purposes, which are inextricably tied up with GNU-freedom, only those Creative Commons License versions which are "free" in the GNU sense are acceptable. The NonCommercial License, for example, is not acceptable.
The best license for images is probably ShareAlike.
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