Re:Show HN: Open-core icon sets that took me 12 years to create
by prmoustache on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @05:31AM
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Creative Commons licenses aren't open source licences. Your phrasing is misleading. They are however copyleft as they allow for redistribution and modification and this is the word you should be using.
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Re:Show HN: Open-core icon sets that took me 12 years to create
by zauguin on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @06:13AM
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CC BY is not a copyleft license. Copyleft is explicitly about the requirement to use the same license for modifications, which is present in CC BY-SA, but not in CC BY.
CC BY is recognized by the FSF as a free license and by Debian as DFSG-free. While it's not listed by the OSI as open-source, I think that's mostly because it's not a code license. So I don't think that calling it a open source license is misleading.
Of course, for open source icons I would actually expect the source files to be open...