[wp-docs] GNU General Public Licence

[Gooitzen van der Ent]

> 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?

On 06/09/2010 05:45 PM, Jane Wells wrote:
> On 6/9/10 6:40 PM, Arlen Beiler wrote:
>> How are they incompatible? I read the two over briefly, and it didn't 
>> seem incompatible, though they easily could be. Could you point me to 
>> where you are reading.
>>
>> Also, this is a software licence, not a documentation license. The 
>> whole licence doesn't make sense from a documentation point of view. 
>> I, for one, am releasing all my contributions under GPL, CC-By-SA, 
>> and (will maybe) GFDL (just in case). That includes all past 
>> contributions. If all the contributors would do the same, or at least 
>> GPL and CC-By-SA, it would help quite a bit.
> The issue of why the Codex is GPL is a valid question, and one I am 
> not getting into here.
>
> What I will get into is that at this time is that right now, the Codex 
> *is* licensed as GPL. That means that CC-by-SA is not compatible, 
> because it requires attribution -- a restriction on how users use the 
> content. 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
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