There appears to be some confusion about differences among Creative Commons licenses. The Creative Commons Attribution is what is known as CC/By and there is no problem with it. Creative Commons Non-Commercial and Creative Commons Share-Alike are the problems and the discussion you found was about CC-SA.
In addition, CC-0 is a quit claim -- it effectively makes a work public domain except that the copyright owner can, I suppose, still provide derivatives under more-restrictive licenses because the copyright does not disappear (in the US, at least). With regard to CC-By, it is the copyright holder who gets to say what is an acceptable attribution, and even to require that there be no attribution in a particular case. In my experience, it is rare to find information about what an acceptable attribution might be. It seems to me that working with publisher-ready "sources" (i.e., DocBook) rather than the published form does not relieve one of honoring the origin. - Dennis -----Original Message----- From: Paul Davis [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2012 15:56 To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: Importing Documentation under CC-3.0 license into CouchDB project On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 2:54 AM, Dave Cottlehuber <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > The CouchDB project received a donation of API docs [docs] > and build tools from company CouchBase [jan1][mc2], > with our PMC (Jan Lehnardt) OK to proceed [jan3]. > > 1. The licence of contribution is CC-3.0A [mc4][cc5]. Is this > compatible? > > 2. As this is a substantial contribution, can you advise if there's > any special requirements prior to pushing this into the ASF > couchdb repo? Link on legal site [asf6] suggest this should > be OK with attribution [dch7]. > > Thanks, Dave > [email protected] > > [docs]: > https://github.com/dch/couchdb/commit/6f64082f91ff33b4cf1d847974e353d275aa3889 > [jan1]: > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/couchdb-dev/201106.mbox/%[email protected]%3E > [mc2]: > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/couchdb-dev/201107.mbox/%[email protected]%3E > [jan3]: > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/couchdb-dev/201202.mbox/%[email protected]%3E > > [mc4]: > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/couchdb-dev/201202.mbox/%[email protected]%3E > [cc5]: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ > [asf6]: http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#cc-sa > > [dch7]: https://github.com/dch/couchdb/blob/merge_docs/NOTICE#L77-91 I'll point out that a reason that we're wondering about compatibility is that we found a section in the legal docs that mentions CC license and specifically mentions not altering the imported work at [1]. The current plan in CouchDB to import these docs will be to pull the original XML (DocBook) sources that CouchBase created, translate them into a format for Sphinx (Python's plain text system) and then continue to edit/maintain them alongside the rest of CouchDB's sources. [1] http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#cc-sa --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
