GPLv3 compatibility questions

David Woolley forums at david-woolley.me.uk
Tue May 10 07:02:47 UTC 2011


Ilia Ternovich wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I'm working on medium-size open-source project. Currently all
> code-base is almost ready and I'm preparing to release my project so I
> do have some licensing questions.
> 
> I don't want any derivatives and commercial usage of my hand-made
> icons/images/artwork. Is it legal to use
> Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0)
> license for artwork assembly (package) while all code-base is released
> under GPLv3?

No.  These sound much too tightly bound.  If these form an important 
part of the package, rather than just examples of things that the user 
is expected to replace, they need to be GPL compatible.
> 
> 2. I'm using multiple 3rd party libraries which are released under
> following licenses:
> - MS-PL

No.



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