Pe data de S�m 12 Mar 2005 09:27, Peter Kupfer a scris: > Why can we choose to follow the CC-BY & ignore the GPL when we > publish. Obviously we can because you said we can, so I am trying > to figure why that is not an issue of us only following one of the > licenses. > The original author has all the rights concerning the work, as protected by copyright law. If he agrees to give us some rights, under CC-BY or/and, at our option, under GPL, we can use either one (not fragments, because he allowed us only to all of either one license or both). He still is the author (or coauthor) of the original work. This is a personal right mentionated by law, and it cannot be transmited (traded). He may say this (he is the author) anytime. It doesn't matter that the work is mentioning him together with and like the rest of authors. The modifications, if the authors of modifications don't have another copyright agreement with the original author, must follow CC-BY and/or GPL, because those public licences are the legal contract between them and the original author. -- ghrt
