Licensing directions for Fedora content

Tom "spot" Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Mon Apr 6 22:09:04 UTC 2009


On 04/06/2009 05:41 PM, Karsten Wade wrote:
> It looks like the FDL 1.3 clauses that allow compatibility with the
> CC-BY-SA are set to expire in Aug 2009.  What does this mean about our
> ability to pull in and use FDL content?  To work with upstreams to
> relicense or dual-license?

The exemptions wouldn't really apply to us, due to the timing.
It would be safe to assume that CC-BY-SA is GFDL incompatible. (CC-BY
might be GFDL compatible, but you might end up with derived proprietary
works.)

~spot




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