On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 11:20:35AM +0200, Francesco Poli wrote: > 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? Creative Commons Attribution License. > > 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... > A database of place names. Read in as data when the program runs. -- Paul Elliott 1(512)837-1096 pelliott@BlackPatchPanel.com PMB 181, 11900 Metric Blvd Suite J http://www.free.blackpatchpanel.com/pme/ Austin TX 78758-3117 --- "Encryption works. Properly implemented strong crypto systems are one of the few things that you can rely on. Unfortunately, endpoint security is so terrifically weak that NSA can frequently find ways around it." Edward Snowden
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