[wp-docs] GNU General Public Licence

[Arlen Beiler]

I am releasing it under both licences, to facilitate changing it, and what
not. GPL is a software licence, and CC-By-SA is a generic license (sort of),
more documentation oriented. I would require everyone to release it under
CC-By-SA if I had my way. And no, there are no limitations to releasing
something under two licences. It is GPL *OR* CC-By-SA, not AND. You can use
either.

On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 2:04 AM, Gooitzen van der Ent <
contact at ecodelphinus.com> 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?
>
>
> 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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