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Re: CC license on figures in specs?

by Ian Jacobs-2 :: Rate this Message:

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On 15 Dec 2011, at 3:55 PM, fantasai wrote:

> On 12/15/2011 08:35 AM, Ian Jacobs wrote:
>>
>> On 15 Dec 2011, at 10:27 AM, Henry S. Thompson wrote:
>>
>>> Anybody ever put e.g. a CC 3.0 Sharealike with citation license on one
>>> or more figures in a W3C Rec.?  Any reason not to?
>>
>> Hi Henry,
>>
>> I believe that would conflict with the Document License.
>
> Indeed. Which brings up an issue: we might want to make an update to the
> Document License saying that examples and figures are in the public domain.
> Example code, especially. The point is to allow them as a starting point
> for reuse. :)

Henry mentioned fair use, so perhaps this is already possible under the Document License.

Ian

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