Pardon me if this question has been asked before. I am developing a new line of Carpentry-like lessons and I am quite confused by the license maze out there, when it comes to adopting or incorporating materials from other sources into Carpentries lesson. I am taking any Carpentry lesson as a straw man. These lessons use “CC-BY 4.0” license (which is lenient in my opinion). Other lessons, for example, Code Refinery’s lesson (https://coderefinery.org/lessons/) are using a more restrictive license, which is “CC-BY-SA 4.0”. Can we actually take a piece of CC-BY-SA materials and include it in a greater work that is licensed by CC-BY? Assuming that perhaps the piece coming from CC-BY-SA will still be under CC-BY-SA, and not the CC-BY governing the rest of the work. Is this possible?
Related to the question above: Has anyone ever worked with other people in adopting their materials and relicensing under CC-BY? What experience that you can share? Are people generally willing to accept such a request? Why I am asking these questions here? Things such as figures, tables, and code snippets can sometimes hard to come by and if we can leverage what others have made, all the better, rather than us also spending a lot of time remaking them just because of incompatible license. -- Wirawan Purwanto Computational Scientist Research Computing Services / Information Technology Services Old Dominion University Norfolk, VA 23529 ------------------------------------------ The Carpentries: discuss Permalink: https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/Td64229aeb252a027-M47b1f04fb93bab3541effde1 Delivery options: https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription
