Taking Artists Into Consideration

[Vasileios Valatsos]

If I may interject, I think that the spirit of what OP is trying to say, and also based on the linked blog post at the end of OP's email, is that current "art" or "content" oriented copyleft licenses, so ShareAlike and FAL mainly, are weak copyleft in the sense that as long as you provide the modifications done to the original you are compliant with the license. So in their example, SCP Foundation lore is CC BY-SA, and if a game dev uses or modifies and then offers work based on SCP Foundation lore, they simply need to provide the modified lore under CC BY-SA. 

This contradicts how strong copyleft works, where if I have a project with GPLv3/AGPL code or libs, I must release all of the project under GPLv3/AGPL, even if the majority of the code is MIT for example.

Therefore, if I understood correctly, OP is asking for a "viral", strong copyleft license for art. In my opinion it should be a different license, maybe copyleft-art(?), if even possible/reasonable, because I think a single license trying to encompass every sort of digital object might be too broad.

> This framing makes it sound like CC BY-SA is uniquely deficient, when
> in reality the limitation is tied to copyright itself. While it's true
> CC BY-SA doesn't have a source-sharing clause, the absence of SCP games
> with source code isn't solely explained by that. A license can only
> "bite" as far as copyright itself goes. For CC BY-SA to apply to the
> game, the game software itself would need to be treated as a derivative
> of the written material - and that’s a legally nuanced question.
> Pinning the outcome on CC BY-SA's source code sharing required for CC
> BY-SA not applying to the game oversimplifies the situation, and isn't
> specific to CC BY-SA either.

LGPL and GPL with linking exception were created specifically to give a pass to linking. One could argue that using content in a downstream medium is a type of linking, like for example using an AGPL lib for a service, but I am not a lawyer so it is not for me to comment.

Intuitively it does feel like CC BY-SA and FAL are in the weaker side of copyleft though, and I have searched for stronger copyleft licenses for my own content.

- Vasileios Valatsos
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