Creative Commons Attribution <_>

[Marcus Lucero]

In your list you have posted that the following are all FSF Free? either YES or NO.

Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
Creative Commons Attribution No Derivatives 3.0
Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0
Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives 3.0
Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike 3.0
Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 3.0
Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal

Can I assume that this also means that the previous versions (1, 2, 2.5) of each of the licenses are also FSF Free? either YES or NO.

For example can I assume that FSF Free? YES for versions 1.0, 2.0, 2.5, and 3.0
Full Name

Short Name

FSF Free?

Upstream URL

Creative Commons Attribution license

CC-BY

Yes

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

and then assume that FSF Free? NO for versions  1.0, 2.0, 2.5, and 3.0 of:
Full Name

FSF Free?

Upstream URL

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs

No

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/

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[Tom Callaway]

On 01/31/2012 05:10 PM, Marcus Lucero wrote:
> In your list you have posted that the following are all FSF Free? either
> *YES *or*NO*.
>
> Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
>
> Creative Commons Attribution No Derivatives 3.0
>
> Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0
>
> Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives 3.0
>
> Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike 3.0
>
> Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 3.0
>
> Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal
>
> Can I assume that this also means that the previous versions (1, 2, 2.5)
> of each of the licenses are also FSF Free? either *YES *or*NO*.

No. You cannot safely assume that.

However, the FSF has stated that CC-BY 2.0 and CC-BY-SA 2.0 are Free:

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#OtherLicenses

~tom

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