I may have got this all wrong but it seems to me that Produced Works are potentially compatible with most licenses, but are not compatible with most share alike licenses. I hope this isn't right and that someone can explain the flaws in my reasoning.<br>
<br>I can create a Produced Work and publish it under MyWTF license [1]. If I'm the author of the MyWFT license then I can put whatever clauses I like in it providing I admit the ODbL reverse engineering clause and provide the appropriate attribution.<br>
<br>However if I try to publish a Produced Work under a share alike licence like CC-BY-SA then I am bound to the inevitable clause that will prevent me from attaching any *additional* constraints to the license. In the case of CC-BY-SA this would be clause 4a which says "You may not offer or impose any terms
on the Work that restrict the terms of this License..." So I can't add the extra reverse engineering clause that ODbL requires.<br><br>Since every share alike license, almost by definition, will have a clause like this there seems to be no way that I can publish a Produced Work under any share-alike license.<br>
<br>So, I can publish the Produced Work using any license I can dream up, no matter how draconian, unless it contains a share-alike clause.<br><br>Are ODbL Produced Works really anti-share alike or is there some subtlety that I have missed?<br>
<br>80n<br><br>[1] The MyWTF license:<br>1) Hands off, its all mine.<br>2) Any data created from this work that constitutes a substantial part of the data contained in the original database is govered by the Open Database Licence (ODbL). <br>
3) This pretty picture contains information from the MyODbL database, which is made available here under the Open Database Licence (ODbL). <br><br>