Re: [Gnewsense-dev] [License] FDLv1.3 & CC by 3.0 compatibility

[Sam Geeraerts]

r. siddharth wrote:
> I want to know if a work licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 
> 3.0 Unported license[1] can be used in another work that is going to be 
> licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License v1.3[2] ?

As far as I know, that is possible. (IANAL)

> "Why am I asking this ?"
>
> Well, I am chalking out a website documentation page for Awesome Window 
> Manager and might be using (part of) the .awesomerc[3] configuration 
> file available in the Awesome's wiki. I observed that "content" 
> published under the Awesome's wiki is licensed under the Creative 
> Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License & gNewSense's documentation is 
> licensed under the FDLv1.3. Now I am under a dilemma whether to use the 
> .awesomerc file for gNewSense docs.

It might be enough of a creative expression to be copyrightable, but on 
the other hand it's "just" a configuration file that's probably very 
similar to dozens of other awesomerc files, published or not.

If you decide to use it, please leave out any references to non-free 
software (e.g. Acroread).