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What the argument over the names often boils down to is philosophy, not just attribution or credit. GNU was created with software freedom in mind. Linux, in its genesis, was proprietary until it adopted the GNU GPL licence and then became mainstream.
Severed Fifth, a metal solo project born in the heart of FLOSS community was launched today under a Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike license. "[...]This will allow anyone to download, listen to, share and re-mix the songs freely, with the only condition that suitable attribution and credit is placed."
"...For the past month we’ve been working on the feasibility of Olinda, a DAB digital radio prototype for the BBC [...] I’m proud to say that, when complete, the BBC will put the IPR of Olinda under an attribution license–the equivalent of a BSD or Creative Commons Attribution..."
The Open Source Initiative approved on July 25 its first new license in quite some time: the Common Public Attribution License, which is essentially the Mozilla Public License with a new attribution clause.
After having released his professional game art 'for free' for years, Daniel Cook made the usage terms clear once and for all, by selecting an attribution license, published by Creative Commons, for his works.
Now these precious 2D images can be used by open source (game) projects without ever fearing Debian's lawyers asking about DFSG compatability!
"...Big Buck Bunny is a free short movie created by the Peach open movie project.The animated movie is freely licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license, which means, according to their 'about' page: 'you can freely reuse and distribute this content, also commercially, for as long you provide a proper attribution.' Big Buck Bunny was made primarily with the awesome free Blender 3D
"We’ve just added the seal you see at right to Creative Commons licenses that qualify as Free Culture Licenses according to the Definition of Free Cultural Works — Attribution and Attribution-ShareAlike. Public domain is not a license, but is an acceptable copyright status for free cultural works according to the Definition.
