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On 11/26/2017 6:48 PM, Enrico Colombini wrote:
On 26-Nov-17 01:45, Jonathan Goble wrote:
Generally speaking, Creative Commons's own FAQ explicitly
recommends against using their license for software, for
multiple reasons. [2] That answer further states that
"Additionally, our licenses are currently not compatible with
the major software licenses, so it would be difficult to
integrate CC-licensed work with other free software." IANAL, so
I would interpret that on the safe side to mean that no CC
license is fully compatible with the MIT license (what Lua uses).

[1] (quoted footnote)
[2]
https://creativecommons.org/faq/#can-i-apply-a-creative-commons-license-to-software


Uh oh... I completely missed that when, years ago, when I
published a couple of works including Lua code under CC-by-sa.

(I guess it's too late do do something about it)

The author can always re-license a work he/she still has copyright control/rights over. In some places, it is normal to assign the copyright of a work to someone else (e.g. FSF (GNU) projects, scientific papers). Even so, some GNU projects do accept very short patches (especially bugfixes) as obvious, without having to file FSF paperwork.

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Selangor, Malaysia