I'm curious why we are automatically applying a CC license to projects shared on Scratch. Those licenses aren't designed for code/programs. We should use licenses with similar conditions and specifically designed for code, like the GNU General Public License

Scratch projects are considered “creative works”, and the GPL is basically 100% copyleft.

You still have rights over attribution, etc., but if it were licensed under the GPL, anyone could basically do whatever they want with it.

Hope this answers your question!

- ma007rio

Isn't that necessarily the same? The CC BY-SA allows you to use works however you want, provided you give attribution and distribute any derivatives under the same license. The GPL is equivalent to this, but written specifically for code.

orthodoxTrinitarian wrote:

Isn't that necessarily the same? The CC BY-SA allows you to use works however you want, provided you give attribution and distribute any derivatives under the same license. The GPL is equivalent to this, but written specifically for code.

Yeah uhm…
Scratch uses sounds and art too.
No support

Scratch_Cat_Coder8 wrote:

orthodoxTrinitarian wrote:

Isn't that necessarily the same? The CC BY-SA allows you to use works however you want, provided you give attribution and distribute any derivatives under the same license. The GPL is equivalent to this, but written specifically for code.

Yeah uhm…
Scratch uses sounds and art too.
No support

Yeah, so do other projects not on Scratch. That's why we should use a dual-licensing method, where sound and art is licensed under a CC license, while actual code is licensed under the GPL.

Code is art

It works fine to do it how it is being done now, yes?

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TimothyLawyer wrote:

Code is art

I wouldn't consider it to be art, for the most part. They're just instructions that a computer follows to perform a task.

TimothyLawyer wrote:

It works fine to do it how it is being done now, yes?

I have nothing against the remixing culture on Scratch, but a proper license is needed to protect the actual code (I am not talking about sprites, sounds, backgrounds, etc) so that others can build up on it and share it (remixing). Even CC says that their licenses shouldn't be applied to code.