[Wikipedia-l] Creative Commons Licence

Wed Mar 3 14:13:51 UTC 2004

What about  "Attribution" (by:) and  "No Derivative Works" (=) ?

Aoineko

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jimmy Wales" <jwales at bomis.com>
To: <wikipedia-l at Wikimedia.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 10:04 PM
Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] Creative Commons Licence

> 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
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