data and software licence incompatabilities?

2013-08-25 Thread Paul Elliott
My upstream has written a gpl-2 program and added some Creative commons attribute files in a sub directory from another project, with CC license. It is all distributed in one tarball. I look on the FSF web site and it says these licenses are incompatible. But wait, the CC stuff is only data,

Re: data and software licence incompatabilities?

2013-08-25 Thread Francesco Poli
On Sun, 25 Aug 2013 03:21:00 -0500 Paul Elliott wrote: My upstream has written a gpl-2 program and added some Creative commons attribute files in a sub directory from another project, with CC license. Hello, thanks for taking this kind of issues seriously. Which Creative Commons

Re: data and software licence incompatabilities?

2013-08-25 Thread Paul Elliott
On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 11:20:35AM +0200, Francesco Poli wrote: On Sun, 25 Aug 2013 03:21:00 -0500 Paul Elliott wrote: My upstream has written a gpl-2 program and added some Creative commons attribute files in a sub directory from another project, with CC license. Hello,

Re: data and software licence incompatabilities?

2013-08-25 Thread Francesco Poli
On Sun, 25 Aug 2013 04:35:38 -0500 Paul Elliott wrote: On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 11:20:35AM +0200, Francesco Poli wrote: On Sun, 25 Aug 2013 03:21:00 -0500 Paul Elliott wrote: My upstream has written a gpl-2 program and added some Creative commons attribute files in a sub

Re: data and software licence incompatabilities?

2013-08-25 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
My own opinions below (not any sort of ftp* anything) On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 12:15:11PM +0200, Francesco Poli wrote: A database of place names. Read in as data when the program runs. If these attribute files are really just data read at run-time by the program, I think that the license

Re: data and software licence incompatabilities?

2013-08-25 Thread Paul Elliott
On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 12:15:11PM +0200, Francesco Poli wrote: On Sun, 25 Aug 2013 04:35:38 -0500 Paul Elliott wrote: On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 11:20:35AM +0200, Francesco Poli wrote: On Sun, 25 Aug 2013 03:21:00 -0500 Paul Elliott wrote: My upstream has written a gpl-2