Legal licenses are written in legal vernacular. Since neither of us are 
lawyers we get to use the human-readable description to guide us to the 
right interpretation of "same". It reads: "If you alter, transform, or 
build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under a 
license identical to this one."

Identical is equal to equal :o)

- Andreas

On Wed, 24 May 2006 23:40:06 +0200, Charles HOPE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> It didn't say "equal to" though. It said "contains the same".
>
> In vernacular English it can go either way. Do you have a picture of 
> Lindsay
> Lohan and one of Keira Knightly on your website? Cool, my site contains 
> the same
> ones. (But I also have a picture of a decapitated elephant.) And my new,
> improved license contains all the same elements as the two old ones.
>
>
>
> Andreas Haugstrup wrote:
>
> On Wed, 24 May 2006 23:23:27 +0200, Charles HOPE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> Andreas Haugstrup wrote:
>
> Normally, yes, but not in this care. The license says:
>
> "You may distribute, publicly display, publicly perform, or publicly
> digitally perform a Derivative Work only under the terms of this License,
> a later version of this License with the same License Elements as this
> License, or a Creative Commons iCommons license that contains the same
> License Elements as this License (e.g. Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5
> Japan)."
> It must contain the same elements. It doesn't prohibit it from
> containing a few
> more as well!
>
>
> I don't know where you took your math classes, but around here there's a
> big difference between "equal to" and "equal to or more". :o)
>
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