<html>
<head>
<meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
http-equiv="Content-Type">
</head>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
Reasons for adopting the CC - Attribution- ShareAlike include:<br>
* CC-by-SA is similar in spirit to the GNU Public License<br>
* CC-by-SA is specifically mentioned in the Free Documentation
License as being an alternative (relating to WikiPedia)<br>
* CC-by-SA is the current license for
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;
charset=ISO-8859-1">
Open Source Geospatial Foundation, Wikipedia, Peer to Peer
University, Wikiversity, Mozilla wiki, OpenStreetMap wiki, etc. so
contents from QGIS documents can easily be integrated into/adapted
from those communities.<br>
* CC-by-SA has the mark that it is "Approved for Free Cultural
Works" as defined at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://freedomdefined.org">http://freedomdefined.org</a><br>
* CC licenses provide machine readable code so that search engines
can effectively index CC materials. <br>
<br>
Alternately, the CC-by license is approved for free cultural works.<br>
<br>
Notes:<br>
-
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;
charset=ISO-8859-1">
<a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Main_Page">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Main_Page</a><br>
- <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wikipedia.org">http://wikipedia.org</a><br>
- <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://p2pu.org">http://p2pu.org</a><br>
- <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wikiversity.org">http://wikiversity.org</a><br>
- <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.mozilla.org">http://wiki.mozilla.org</a><br>
-
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;
charset=ISO-8859-1">
<a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Main_Page">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Main_Page</a><br>
<br>
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
--Brylie Oxley
GNUmedia Technologist
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://gnumedia.org">http://gnumedia.org</a>
Technology Apprentice
Woolman Semester School
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://woolman.org">http://woolman.org</a>
Social
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://brylie.wordpress.com">http://brylie.wordpress.com</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:xmpp:brylie@jabber.org">xmpp:brylie@jabber.org</a>
omb:<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://identi.ca/brylie">http://identi.ca/brylie</a></pre>
</body>
</html>