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Re: Version 3.0 -- It's Happening & With BY-SA Compatibility Language Too
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2007-02-12 05:34:43
robrobmyers.org wrote:
> Under GPL-3, the BY license of Elephants Dream might be
compatible with 
> the GPL
> and so the source files could be included without any
worry.

I hadn't considered this. How does GPL-3 make the BY license
compatible?

And since I am on it, does anyone know which changes in the
CC v3 licenses
make them compatible with the Debian Free Software
Guidelines?

>> In most cases, there is no problem with the
existing licenses. A game
>> engine's copyleft license does not affect the
content it plays, nor does
>> the sharealike content license affect the engine
used to play it.

Nobody says that. What we say is that the game *is* the
content, not the
engine. So we would like to have completely modifiable
games, not just games
whose engine can be modified.

This may be Offtopic, so count this as a placeholder for a
debate, maybe to
be held in another venue. You can run a non-free python
program on the free
Python interpreter, and you can play a non-free game on the
free game
engine, but the user is better served if her programas and
her games are free.

Back on the topic. That CC-by and CC-by-sa are compatible
with the GPL and
free-enough-for-Debian is, however, a full solution to all
my (real or
perceived) quibbles on this matter.

Thanks for the hard clarification work,

-- javier
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