[License-discuss] Wikipedia Content

Lawrence Rosen lrosen at rosenlaw.com
Tue Dec 2 01:52:16 UTC 2014


Sorry, I meant CC-SA throughout! Brain hiccup happened. /Larry


-----Original Message-----
From: John Cowan [mailto:cowan at mercury.ccil.org] 
Sent: Monday, December 1, 2014 5:41 PM
To: lrosen at rosenlaw.com; license-discuss at opensource.org
Cc: 'Kat Walsh'
Subject: Re: [License-discuss] Wikipedia Content

Lawrence Rosen scripsit:

> Henri, this issue keeps coming up here! On your behalf and on behalf 
> of other curious readers here on this list, I will ask our Creative 
> Commons friends your question: "Is the CC-SA license GPL-like?"

[snip]

> Yes, it requires reciprocation by anyone who creates an Adaptation of 
> the CC-BY work. No, it doesn't require anything more onerous than the 
> Apache License for the mere incorporation of that work into a 
> Collection.

Are you talking about CC-BY or CC-(BY-)-SA?

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