On Sun, 25 Aug 2013 04:35:38 -0500 Paul Elliott wrote: > 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. Which version? [...] > > > 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. If these attribute files are really just data read at run-time by the program, I think that the license incompatibility should not be a re-distribution legal issue. Anyway, persuading the copyright holder(s) of these attribute files to re-license (or dual-license) them under the terms of the GNU GPL v2 would erase any doubt... -- 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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