Erm, drat! Answering to myself because I failed to provide
the link to
either the EUPL <http:/
/ec.europa.eu/idabc/en/document/6523> or to its GPL
compatibility exegesis: <
http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/servlets/Doc?id=27472>.
Regards,
- Javier Candeira
Javier Candeira wrote:
> Greg bond wrote:
>> The idea CC is apparently working on for making
>> licenses inter-operable is to put language into
>> the license that allows the content to be licensed
>> under the original license, or any license that is
>> deemed to be similar enough, for some fuzzy
definition
>> of "enough".
>
> A possible solution would be to allow distribution
> and modification under particular versions of
particular
> licenses. This is the course taken by the European
Union
> Public License or EUPL [1], which has an article that
> basically says "all of this and you can relicense
under
> the GPL too".
>
>> Since no CC license has a "source code"
requirement,
>> I don't think any CC license will ever be directly
>> interchangable with GNU-GPL. But they are trying
to
>
> They don't have to be interchangeable as nobody relly
> needs GPL programs to be relicensed under CC by-sa.
>
> It would be handy, though, if CC-licensed sounds and
> images could be distributed with a GPLd program under
> the same GPL license. This would help the legal
distrib-
> ution by free distros of some apps (particularly
games).
> Debian, in particular, does not deem any CC license
> to be free, even the most permissive by and by-sa
flavours.
>
> As Creative Commons already -recommends the GPL for
works
> made of code, an automatic one-way compatibility (CC-by
or
> CC-by-sa automatically converting to GPL by inclusion
in
> a GPL'd program) would be very useful.
>
> - Javier Candeira
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