On Sat, 29 Apr 2006 15:17:39 GMT NeuRoTiX wrote: > Francesco Poli wrote: > > The only (recommended) copyleft license that is GPL-compatible is > > the GNU GPL itself. Current version is 2.0: > > http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl.txt > > Is it the same I got doing "man gpl"? It seems so... It's also the same as /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2 in Debian systems (a part from the FSF mail address which has changed in the meanwhile: sarge still includes the text with the old address...). > > I see that there is a license "for artworks" that is called to be the > "GPL for art". I'm talking about the "Free Art License": > http://artlibre.org/licence/lal/en/ > > In the license FAQ (in french... and my french is poor but better > than the free-online-translation-services' french) I can't find if > this licence is compatible with GPL or not (as a Debian user is also > interesting to know if this license is DFSG compatible). > There has recently been a subthread about this license: http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2006/04/msg00257.html Short summary: GPL-incompatible and (most probably) non-free. Not recommendable. > > It's obvious that releasing my works in GPL would be great. Not only > because GPL *IS* the copyleft license, but also because I would avoid > differente license proliferation... a thing that makes really hard the > task to choose a license for a work: it is not acceptable that > choosing the right license should take so many time (time that is > better to use to create content). Exactly. > > > After reading your reply I decided to release under GPL, the only > doubt I got now it's only about the fact that GPL is not "dedicated" > to artworks... that's why I also ask an opionion about the "Free Art > License". Great! :-)) > > > The copyleft attitude is ok for me: I think that every cultural work > belongs to its contemporaries, just because that work spawned from its > contemporaneity. > [ok, stop, I'm falling in philosophy and maybe this is not the right > place] It's also great to hear say this! :) > > > Thank you and thanks to all the others that replied to my question. Thanks to you for deciding to release works in a DFSG-free manner! -- :-( This Universe is buggy! Where's the Creator's BTS? ;-) ...................................................................... Francesco Poli GnuPG Key ID = DD6DFCF4 Key fingerprint = C979 F34B 27CE 5CD8 DC12 31B5 78F4 279B DD6D FCF4
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