Glad that FSF's post on BY-SA-4.0->GPLv3 compatibility encourages specifying a proxy that can allow other GPL versions, since the compatibility doesn't explicitly permit GPLv3+ (I advocated for it to, but anyway).
Can anyone point to an existing GPLv3 project that specifies a proxy? I can't find even an example anywhere, not even in the copyleft.org guide (it does mention the proxy clause). Someone point me in the right direction or I will fabricate terrible example with a patch for inclusion in the guide to eventually get @bkuhn's attention on the matter. I will probably do that anyway if nobody beats me to it, but the patch could be less awful with your input!
BTW the FSF post also has a comprehensive (AFAIK) list of people associated at some point with CC and/or FSF who helped on the compatibility project. There was also at least one non-connected person who I think was really helpful with kind and patient but extremely persistent input, Arne Babenhauserheide.
Can anyone point to an existing GPLv3 project that specifies a proxy? I can't find even an example anywhere, not even in the copyleft.org guide (it does mention the proxy clause). Someone point me in the right direction or I will fabricate terrible example with a patch for inclusion in the guide to eventually get @bkuhn's attention on the matter. I will probably do that anyway if nobody beats me to it, but the patch could be less awful with your input!
BTW the FSF post also has a comprehensive (AFAIK) list of people associated at some point with CC and/or FSF who helped on the compatibility project. There was also at least one non-connected person who I think was really helpful with kind and patient but extremely persistent input, Arne Babenhauserheide.
Drew Fustini, Christine Lemmer-Webber, Arne Babenhauserheide likes this.
Arne Babenhauserheide, Arne Babenhauserheide, Christine Lemmer-Webber, Arne Babenhauserheide shared this.
I am glad that the FSF post explicitly mentioned the source requirements of GPLv3 when ones are considering adapting CC BY-SA 4.0 materials into GPLv3 works. I fully support this precaution, but this also makes clear the burden when one is to make use of others' CC BY-SA 4.0 blobs for GPLv3 works. How to get and verify s/he has the right source materials from which the blobs can be faithfully regenerated? What happens when the source materials are not explicitly BY-SA 4.0 licensed?
Other the other hand, now that it is officially one-way compatible, perhaps there will be a new norm for people to always release CC BY-SA works with the source materials. :-)
Other the other hand, now that it is officially one-way compatible, perhaps there will be a new norm for people to always release CC BY-SA works with the source materials. :-)
Tyng-Ruey Chuang at 2015-10-10T05:50:03Z
Christine Lemmer-Webber, Arne Babenhauserheide likes this.
Could such a proxy declaration look like this?
later versions of the GPL are allowed by proxy, if they are deemed compatible by Creativecommons. See http://creativecommons.org/compatiblelicenses
later versions of the GPL are allowed by proxy, if they are deemed compatible by Creativecommons. See http://creativecommons.org/compatiblelicenses
Arne Babenhauserheide at 2015-10-10T09:19:55Z
Christine Lemmer-Webber, Mike Linksvayer likes this.
(a bit late but still) Thank you for the mention! ☺
I wrote about the compatibility on two pages:
http://draketo.de/english/free-software/by-sa-gpl
http://1w6.org/blog/drak/2015-10-08-cc-sa-ist-jetzt-kompatibel-zur-gpl
“This is the biggest news for free culture and free software in the past 5 years: The creativecommons attribution sharealike license is now one-way compatible to the GPL”
I wrote about the compatibility on two pages:
http://draketo.de/english/free-software/by-sa-gpl
http://1w6.org/blog/drak/2015-10-08-cc-sa-ist-jetzt-kompatibel-zur-gpl
“This is the biggest news for free culture and free software in the past 5 years: The creativecommons attribution sharealike license is now one-way compatible to the GPL”
Arne Babenhauserheide at 2015-11-14T11:50:47Z
Christine Lemmer-Webber, Mike Linksvayer likes this.