[OSM-legal-talk] PD vs SA: The eternal battle

Joseph Gentle josephg at gmail.com
Sat Oct 25 23:32:35 BST 2008


On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 8:57 AM, Philipp Klaus Krause <pkk at spth.de> wrote:
> To me the main problem with copyleft licenses is that there are so many
> incompatible ones of them.

Here's the compatibility chart amongst creative-commons licenses:
http://mirrors.creativecommons.org/blimg/cc-tw-license-compatibility-wizard.png
Confusing, isn't it? And, not many licenses are actually compatible
with each other. Barely any, once you take out the "all licenses are
compatible with themselves" and "everything is compatible with the PD"

Here's a great write-up with a guy bitching about; and concluding its
better to just go PD.
http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/347

> PD has the advantage of being compatible with all of them.
>
> Philipp
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