On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 10:20 AM, Sam Kuper sam.kuper@uclmail.net wrote:
Also, to further address Patrick's point above about marketing material: it is important that the provenance of information about Coreboot can be established. This is a reputational matter. That means it is important that people should not legally be able to misrepresent Coreboot contributors' views, etc,
Both CC-BY and CC-BY-SA have "no endorsement" clauses, and the source of derived materials will still be easily traced back to coreboot.org (or archive.org or wherever).
or claim Coreboot contributors' work as their own.
Both BY and BY-SA licenses require attribution.
[1] How so? Because a licensee who creates a derivative work of a CC BY-licensed work can license that derivative under terms (e.g. CC-0) that would allow *their* licensees do potentially misattribute or otherwise create reputational risk without fear of breaching licensing terms.
Section 3.A.4 of the BY license covers that: "If You Share Adapted Material You produce, the Adapter's License You apply must not prevent recipients of the Adapted Material from complying with this Public License."
So distributing a derived work with a different license does not nullify the original terms.
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David Hendricks