On Thursday, Oct 30, 2003, at 15:17 US/Pacific, Stephen Gilbert wrote:
There is not single "Creative Commons"
license. The project allows you
to pick the attributes you want, and then gives you a license that
covers them. In the case of the PLoF, they have only chosen to require
attribution. A summary of their license is here:
http://www.plos.org/journals/license . It allows modifications for any
purpose, and since they have not opted for a copyleft clause,
derivative
works can be released under any license, including the GFDL.
Jimmy raised the question of paragraph 4(a) of the CC-Attributions
license, which is the one PLoF uses:
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/1.0/legalcode
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incorporated in a Collective Work, but this does not require the
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It appears on its face to a non-lawyer like myself to not be compatible
with relicensing under the GFDL -- a more restrictive license -- at
all. Can anyone clarify this?
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)