Timeline for Is Stack Exchange's CC-BY-SA v3.0 content compatible with the GPL?
Current License: CC BY-SA 3.0
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| Apr 26, 2018 at 23:11 | history | edited | unor | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 13:00 | history | edited | Community Bot |
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| Dec 20, 2015 at 6:11 | comment | added | unor | @MichaelT: In ShareAlike compatibility there is the FAQ How does ShareAlike compatibility work?, which says: "[...] However, downstream users of the adaptation may choose to look ‘only at the compatible license (that is, the last license applied) to determine what their attribution and ShareAlike obligations are under both licenses when they reuse the work." -- So if I understand it correctly, while both licenses apply, others (who want to share/adapt) only have to follow the rules from the compatible license. | |
| Dec 20, 2015 at 1:44 | comment | added | user756 | ... This is again stated in "License obligations of downstream users" that "As explained above, when someone creates an adaptation of a CC-licensed work and licenses it, the license on the adaptation only covers the adapter’s contributions and does not extend to the original content. ... In other words, the person using the adapted work is the licensee under two separate licenses -- one from the adapter with respect to the new elements (i.e. the adaptation), and one from the original creator with respect to the original." | |
| Dec 20, 2015 at 1:44 | comment | added | user756 | It is my understanding from wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/4.0/Treatment_of_adaptations that from "The creator of Adapted Material may choose the license that applies to his or her contributions. However, both the CC license on the original work and the license that the adapter uses for the new contribution apply to the use of the Adapted Material (in addition to whatever third-party rights may apply)." the original CC BY-SA 3.0 license requirements apply to the original work. | |
| Dec 18, 2015 at 18:25 | comment | added | unor | @MichaelT: I’m not sure I understand ... do you wonder if it’s allowed to take two steps at once, or do you question if even the first step is allowed? -- As far as I understand it: if I adapt a work licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0, I can share my adaptation of this work under CC BY-SA 4.0. And if I adapt a work licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0, I can share my adaptation of this work under GPLv3. And taking both steps at once should be possible, too (you could think of publishing an intermediate step with the first half of your adaptation). All of this doesn’t change the license of the original work. | |
| Dec 18, 2015 at 0:58 | comment | added | user756 | Are you sure that is a valid path? While additional contributions in CC BY-SA 3.0 may be licensed as part of a CC BY-SA 4.0 work. The wording at creativecommons.org/compatiblelicenses# is "Your contributions to adaptations of BY-SA 3.0 materials may only be licensed under BY-SA 3.0, or a later version of the BY-SA license" - but this doesn't mean that the original material is now CC BY-SA 4.0. CC BY-SA 3.0 doesn't allow relicensing of the material. My reading of this is that the original material is still CC BY-SA 3.0 and no non-CC license are compatible with it. | |
| Dec 17, 2015 at 17:26 | history | answered | unor | CC BY-SA 3.0 |