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Tagged with creative-commons license-compatibility
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Can I upgrade all CC 3.0 licenses to 4.0 counterparts when creating a joint dataset?
I am planning on creating a dataset which contains data with different licenses. I decided to create differently-licensed versions of my dataset that contain different combinations of data from ...
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Releasing a dataset of image annotations that have varying per-image licensing
Recently I've been working with some colleagues on a dataset. We've obtained annotations for several thousand images which we assumed to be licensed as CC-BY. We intended to release our dataset to the ...
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Is CC-BY-SA 3.0 compatible with Apache 2.0?
Creative Commons explicitly states that GPL3 is compatible with CC-BY-SA 3.0. However, there is no information on its compatibility with Apache 2.0. Currently, I am hosting Apache licensed content on ...
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Project licensed under Apache 2 License but has JS libraries licensed under CC BY-NC-SA
I'm planning to use this open source project for my commercial product. The project itself is licensed under Apache 2.0 license but when I review the package, I found couple of JS libraries that it ...
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Choose or write a proper license [duplicate]
Is there a proper license (I have already checked MIT, LGPL, CC licenses),
which fits the following needs (conditions), or it has to be specify some way?
BY (from CC): Attribution needed
SA (from CC):...
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Using CC-BY-SA images in a CC-BY-NC-SA document
I am creating a presentation that includes some unmodified images licensed under either CC-BY, CC-BY-SA version 2.0, 3.0 or 4.0 (no CC-BY-SA 4.0) and some public domain images. They are all attributed....
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Can I "upgrade" the version of CC BY-SA from 3.0 to 4.0 in my modification?
What I'm doing:
I'm adapting a work licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported license to a different language.
I'm indicating the original work and its license.
I'm indicating that I have made changes to ...
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Can I publish my C++ game on GitHub under MIT using art and libraries under others licenses?
Can I publish my C++ game on GitHub under MIT using art and libraries under others licenses?
I want to publish my code on GitHub, but I have some troubles with licensing.
In my game I use GLEW (...
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Including a CC BY-SA licensed SVG in a CC BY-NC-SA licensed wiki?
I want to upload a SVG document with a CC BY-SA 3.0 license to an online wiki with a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 license.
Will these licenses conflict with each other, or can they coexist?
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Can CC BY 4.0 content be adapted into a CC BY-SA 3.0 work?
If an original work is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0), can an adapted work (i.e. derivative work) be made from it and published under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 (CC ...
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Combining software and image licensing in the same repository
I have a project under Apache license on GitHub. I want to add some non-text stuff into repository (logo).
Can I use Apache license for an image?
If not, what CC license is most 'aligned' with Apache ...
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Can Wikidata which runs under CC-Zero incorporate CC BY content?
Wikidata is a database licensed under CC-Zero.
If Wikidata would include CC BY content with Wikidata properly labeling the source, would that be okay? Or do third-parties that want to reuse the ...
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Relation between the creative commons license and the patent process
I have an algorithm. I'd like to publish this in an open access journal under the creative commons license. But I'm also considering a patent. How do these processes sit together? Does publishing in ...
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Is Stack Exchange's CC-BY-SA v3.0 content compatible with the GPL?
Currently, all user submitted content is licensed under "cc by-sa 3.0 with attribution required". This shows up at the bottom of each page:
user contributions licensed under cc by-sa 3.0 ...
user756
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Why is the CC sampling+ license incompatible with other CC licenses?
Creative Commons used to publish a license called "Sampling Plus", but according to this page, it was retired/deprecated in 2011 due to inadequate demand and "Not compatible with any other CC license"....
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In a Wikipedia article am I able to insert information licensed with CC BY even though they use a CC BY-SA license?
Background:
While writing an article on Wikipedia I needed to include text that is licensed under a CC-BY license. After a bit of digging I found that Wikipedia uses a CC BY-SA license.
Question:
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Are permissive licenses (MIT/BSD/zlib) compatible with CC-BY?
Permissive licenses like MIT only require that you include the license text if you redistribute.
CC licenses that have the BY part require that the original authors are attributed, but in flexible ...
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