Re: Moving to CC-BY-SA 4.0

[Petr Kovar <pmkovar gnome org>]

Hi David,

On Thu, 14 Aug 2014 09:17:59 +0100
David King <amigadave amigadave com> wrote:

> While looking over the new HIG:
>
> https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-devel-docs/log/hig3
>
> there was a discussion about licenses. CC-BY-SA 3.0 (which we currently 
> use for most GNOME documentation) has an explicit "or later" clause, 
> similar to the GPL. This means that CC-BY-SA 3.0 documentation can be 
> reused in documentation under CC-BY-SA 4.0 without problems. This is 
> useful for the new HIG, as it is currently under CC-BY-SA 4.0.

Is CC-BY-SA 4.0 backwards compatible? Ie. can we reuse CC-BY-SA 4.0 content
in CC-BY-SA 3.0 documentation? From my POV, it is important that GNOME
documentation is easily reusable in downstream projects, distros, etc.,
and those often use CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Cheers,
pk