On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 07:52:47PM +0200, Jochen Schmitt wrote:
>
> What are the main diferences beetween OPL 1.0 and the new CC BY SA 3.0
> license.
I cannot provide a legalistic difference, except to note that the OPL
was written by a non-lawyer and has been explained to me as containing
legal flaws, whereas the CC licenses are lawyer-written, have iterated
a few times, and are generally well used/tested.
Regarding features, that also takes a deeper legal understanding than
I can provide. The CC seems to be more liberal in allowing
derivatives to be sub-licensed with a similar license, but that is
just an understanding have and is not a legal opinion.
The biggest differences I think I cover in my article[1], namely:
1. OPL is deprecated, unsupported, and not lawyer preferred; CC is
very popular, supported, and lawyer preffered.
** More chances to reuse CC licensed content.
** Makes our content more useful for other people to blend in to a CC
work.
2. Very little open content exists under the OPL by comparison to the
CC. The OPL is a very small content island, the CC is a very large
content sub-continent.
- Karsten
[1] http://iquaid.org/2009/07/06/why-relicense-fedora-documentation-and-wiki-content/
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