[Foundation-l] Fwd: Share-Alike with images

Sun Feb 11 00:01:45 UTC 2007

Erik Moeller wrote:

>The simple fact is that a photo by itself is not likely to be modified
>much, especially if it's of very high quality to begin with. That's
>why I think it's important that we establish a clear and unambiguous
>reciprocity when images are used in larger works. Perhaps the
>movie-specific phrase in the current SA license text could be
>generalized:
>
>"For the avoidance of doubt, where the Work is semantically combined
>with another (a film with time-synchronized music, an article with
>pictures, and so on), the combined Work will be considered a
>Derivative Work for the purpose of this license."
>  
>

This would be problematic for our own uses unless the CC-BY-SA / GFDL 
compatibility issues are resolved.  The wording of the cc-by-sa requires 
any derivative works to be distributed "only under a license identical 
to this one", but our own encyclopedia is licensed under a non-identical 
license, the GFDL.  So we wouldn't be able to use CC-BY-SA images within 
Wikipedia under that license change, unless they're dual-licensed under 
the GFDL as well...

-Mark