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Ah yes, I've seen some art works released under the GPL before. Do many professionals do this? Have any lawyers looked over the GPL enough to see if there's rea
by Jach 14y ago
Ah yes, I've seen some art works released under the GPL before. Do many professionals do this? Have any lawyers looked over the GPL enough to see if there's really no hurdles with using it for non-software?
- emillon 14y agoI think that the GPL uses the term "derivative work" which is quite vague when it is not applied to code. Many software distributions encourage their upstream to use specific licenses such as one of the Creative Common licenses to cover art. That's true for text too ; for example most pages on gnu.org are licensed under CC-BY-ND. Unfortunately, as the -NC and -ND licenses add restrictions, some distributions such as Debian don't consider it free software (cf. [DFSG]). [DFSG]: http://www.debian.org/social_contract http://www.debian.org/social_contract