GPL
Friday, September 2, 2011 - 12:28
In the time that I around on this forum, I am wondering why does this site allow the GPL license.
Although I think it is a good license, that I have used for some of my projects as well, it is never meant for art.
gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html: "For instance, anyone publishing the book on paper would have to either include machine-readable “source code” of the book along with each printed copy, or provide a written offer to send the “source code” later."
My suggestion is to show only the three CC licenses, and giving an option for viewing more. (Anyway, CC-BY is legally convertable to GPL 3.0)
Anyway, if I understood it wrong, please correct me.
There's nothing wrong with your understanding of the GPL. However, there are some major FOSS projects (notably Wesnoth) that only accept GPLed art, so because of that, we accept the GPL as a license as well. If it were completely up to me, we wouldn't. :)
Bart
As Bart said... some projects require it (more out of historical reasons, e.g. before the CC licenses bacame popular and the debian foundation accepted them after some disagreements).
The problem with your solution of CC-by is that it isn't copyleft... so I always recommend to dual license both CC-by-SA and GPL is applicable and desired.
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