On Sun, 25 Aug 2013 03:21:00 -0500 Paul Elliott wrote: > > > My upstream has written a gpl-2 program and > > added some Creative commons attribute files in a sub directory > from another project, with CC license. Hello, thanks for taking this kind of issues seriously. Which Creative Commons license are these "attribute files" released under? Please excuse my ignorance: what do you mean by "attribute files"? > > It is all distributed in one tarball. > > I look on the FSF web site and it says these licenses > are incompatible. Correct, all CC licenses are GPL-incompatible (except for CC public domain dedication, and CC0 universal public domain dedication, which are *not* licenses anyway...). Unfortunately. > > But wait, the CC stuff is only data, not source files. > So the 2 kinds of files are never incorporated in the > same "program" so GPL license incompatibility does not apply. I cannot comment on this, until I understand what these "attribute files" are... -- http://www.inventati.org/frx/frx-gpg-key-transition-2010.txt New GnuPG key, see the transition document! ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == CA01 1147 9CD2 EFDF FB82 3925 3E1C 27E1 1F69 BFFE
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