On Jun 10 2010 2:04 AM, Gooitzen van der Ent wrote:
If you want to license content about WordPress under a CC-By-SA
license, then you should post it on your own site, not on the Codex,
as the two licenses are not compatible, since they say inherently
different things.
Jane
This is an interesting point. If you write content on WordPress which
is GPL licensed, why would you then use CC-By-SA. Surely there would
be limitations? Depends on the type of content possibly?
Multiple licensing can be a sticky thing. But it's moderately common. As
an example sometimes seen in software, a developer might dual-license a
library as GPL and also under a commercial license. Users can use the
software under the GPL, and accept the responsibilities of that license.
But a corporate entity might choose to purchase the code under the
commercial license, because then they won't be required to GPL any of
their *own* code when they incorporate the library into their own projects.
I can see dual licensing something as GPL and CC-By-SA for similar
reasons. In the case of documentation, a publisher might not want to
include GPL'd content, because it would require them to license the
entire book under GPL (or a compatible license). But they could choose
the CC-By-SA license, as long as they give attribution to the original
author.
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Dougal Campbell <[email protected]>
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