On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Wouter Vanden Hove wrote:
I didn't see it mentioned anywhere, so I post it
anyway.
Last week the Public Library of Science (
www.plos.org) launched their
first Open Acces Journal under the Creative Commons Attribution License
http://www.plosbiology.org
This means (at least in theory) all of this can be reused in the
Wikipedia, including images.
As far as I know, this is not true. Creative Commons only allows spreading
under the same license, not with more or less rights. Since the GNU/FDL is
not the same license, it is not allowed to go from CC to GNU/FDL - or vice
versa.
I'd love it if someone proved me wrong, and either showed that there is a
loophole (intended or unintended) that can be used and/or could get the
"those licenses require basically the same things but in different wording,
so no harm is done by cross-licensing" argument into something that would
be juridically valid.
Andre Engels