Guillaume Blanchard wrote:
Could somebody summarize me (in simple english if
possible) the use
potential of the Creative Commons Licence on Wikipedia ? I suppose that can
relate to only the medias (pictures, sounds, etc.).
Thanks.
Under Clause 7 of the GNU FDL, a compilation consisting of separate
and independent documents or works (such as text and an image for
example, which are inherently separate and independent by their
nature) is considered an "aggregate" which permits different licenses
for the different works therein, so long as the copyright resulting
from the compilation is not used to limit the legal rights of the
compilation's users beyond what the individual works permit.
In plain language, this means that images may have a different license
from the GNU FDL and this is no violation of the GNU FDL.
For our purposes, which are inextricably tied up with GNU-freedom,
only those Creative Commons License versions which are "free" in the
GNU sense are acceptable. The NonCommercial License, for example, is
not acceptable.
The best license for images is probably ShareAlike.
--Jimbo