Re: Alternatives to Creative Commons

[Walter Landry <wlandry@caltech.edu>]

Matthijs Kooijman <matthijs@stdin.nl> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> on the risk of touching a delicate subject, I'm looking for a license to put
> on some artistic content. In particular, the OpenTTD [1] game currently
> requires the use of non-free content to work. There is a project started to
> create free content, so the game as a whole can be made completely free.
> 
> This content will mostly consist of images and audio. Since the GPL license of
> the game itself does not seem so suitable, we are looking into alternatives.

Dual license your work under GPL and whatever you like.  Then there
are no DFSG-freedom issues, and you can fix whatever problems you
think exist in the GPL.  It also simplifies things if we can treat the
whole game+data as being under a single license.

Cheers,
Walter Landry
wlandry@caltech.edu