I’m an aspiring author, building a novel under CC BY-SA (it’s in french). My wish is to make it some kind of framework for others to be allowed to build more stories, or modify mine and redistribute freely, even commercially.
I don’t plan on making a living from it, there’s no way it could happen (although being paid should not be incompatible with free licenses, but that’s another discussion). The thing is, when I think about the attribution part of the license I’m choosing, I often think it’s too restrictive and should be public domain instead, if my work is really meant to be an open narrative framework.
What are your takes on the attribution license, regarding free licenses for cultural content, especially written content ?
(I’m french so if there are any french speaking people around here, feel free to answer in another language than english)
BY-SA will ensure that your work remains an open narrative work.
The main difference between Linux and BSD is that linux is copyleft and BSD is not. Apple copied BSD and contributed basically nothing back to BSD or the FOSS community, whereas Linux is being contributed to by the larget corps in the world (including apple) and has a massive community behind it.