On 25/07/09 09:21, Adam Kowalewski wrote:
Assuming CC-BY was OK legally, how would you follow that license and
credit her in your application?
In out extension we would add her name and homepage link in the
'about' window,
I checked, and CC-BY is not compatible with the GPL:
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html
so if you want your extension to continue to be tri-licensed, then you
can't take her work under CC-BY.
I'm not sure what licence would be suitable. No licence permits the
removal of accurate copyright information, so they all go that far. But
most are focussed on making sure that people's names don't get used for
endorsement, rather than explicitly protecting their right to a credit.
If you have a licence which requires a credit, you start getting close
to the BSD advertising clause:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_licenses#UC_Berkeley_advertising_clause
which makes a licence non-free.
Perhaps the general copyright-law requirement to preserve copyright
notices is strong enough for her? If so, she could either tri-license
the work, or make it available under a BSD-like or MIT-like licence.
Gerv
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