<div><font size="2"><font face="tahoma,sans-serif">Just got an e-mail from CC, this is what they say about the compatibility:</font></font></div>
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<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class="gmail_quote"><font size="2"><font face="tahoma,sans-serif">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Nathan Kinkade</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nkinkade@creativecommons.org">nkinkade@creativecommons.org</a>></span><br>
Date: Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 5:50 PM<br>Subject: Re: GPL<br>To: Emil Uzelac <<a href="mailto:emil@themeid.com">emil@themeid.com</a>><br>Cc: <a href="mailto:info@creativecommons.org">info@creativecommons.org</a><br><br>
<br>Hi Emil,<br><br>My understanding is that no CC license is compatible with any GPL<br>license. Doing a web search for something like "cc gpl compatible"<br>should turn up some resources for you.<br><br>Best,<br>
<font color="#888888"><br>Nathan<br></font></font></font></blockquote>
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<div>Cheers,</div>
<div>Emil</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 5:49 PM, Otto <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:otto@ottodestruct.com">otto@ottodestruct.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div class="im">On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 3:50 PM, Mike Little <<a href="mailto:wordpress@zed1.com">wordpress@zed1.com</a>> wrote:<br></div>
<div class="im">> CC-BY-SA 3.0 is not listed as compatible with the GNU GPL on the GNU site<br>> (<a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#GPLCompatibleLicenses" target="_blank">http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#GPLCompatibleLicenses</a>)<br>
> therefore is *not* compatible.<br><br></div>Doesn't work that way. Compatibility of licenses is a function of the<br>wording of those licenses, not because of anything GNU says.<br>
<div class="im"><br>> Further, CC-BY-SA 2.0, is explicitly stated as *incompatible* with the GNU<br>> GPL.<br><br></div>I am aware of that, however I specifically stated "3.0", not "2.0".<br>For example, CC-BY 2.5 was incompatible because of wording issues.<br>
<div class="im"><br>> It is the attribution requirements in those licences which makes them<br>> incompatible with the GNU GPL. "You must attribute the work in the manner<br>> specified by the author or licensor", this clause allows an author to impose<br>
> restrictions which are incompatible with the GNU GPL.<br><br></div>This is incorrect. While it's true that that wording is in the "human<br>readable" page on <a href="http://creativecommons.org/" target="_blank">creativecommons.org</a>, that is not the actual text of<br>
the license. You can find the actual license here:<br><a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode" target="_blank">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode</a><br><br>Any "incompatibility" would have to originate in that legal document,<br>
not in a mere summary of it, especially one which is factually<br>incorrect (the attribution part is not as simplistic as you believe it<br>to be).<br><br><br>Nevertheless, this is a moot discussion.<br>
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