From: WEBER P. <Pat...@co...> - 2007-05-29 09:11:52
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Hi again, I wrote to the author of Lightbox to consider the proposition to have a dual-license. The problem is that it is based on prototype which is dual-licensed MIT / CC 'by'. The choice for a dual-licence for Lightbox, even if the author agree to do this, seems to be quite limited... In my opinion (but ianal too), the CC Attribution license should not be a problem, since we are keeping the license in the code and since we are just distributing the code as an option. It has even not been modified. Tom spoke about the squeez box which has also an MIT license. I'm not sure this is really better. It could be great to have a clear position for those licenses. Mine is that it should not be a problem if just called by tiki code, but not included in the code. Nyloth. -----Original Message----- From: tik...@li... [mailto:tik...@li...] On Behalf Of ste...@ct... Sent: Tuesday 29 May 2007 09:34 To: Tikiwiki developers Subject: Re: [Tikiwiki-devel] lightbox2 for Tiki On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 11:14:40PM -0400, Marc Laporte wrote 4.4K: > However, we need to make sure the license is OK. It is licensed under=20 > the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License. > http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ > I do not know if this is compatible with Tiki's LGPL. In any case, we=20 > can simply ask them to dual license. Background info: > http://tikiwiki.org/LibLicense >=20 > Anybody know about CC vs GNU license compatibility? iirc according to RMS CC is not Free. because there are restrictions like the nc - non-commercial, which violates freedom in general.=20 Lessig has some blog entry about this issue: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/5709 in this particular case only the 'by' condition of the cc is used, which could be ok, but ianal. debian mailing list has a good overview - result: problems http://people.debian.org/~evan/ccsummary.html btw why would you license code under a data license?=20 there is some discussion about gpl vs cc on wikipedia as well, there this is a much greater problem. first the confusion must increase before the fog clears :) bye,s ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Tikiwiki-devel mailing list Tik...@li... https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tikiwiki-devel |