Re: CC license on figures in specs?

Ian Jacobs writes:

> On 15 Dec 2011, at 10:27 AM, Henry S. Thompson wrote:
>
>> Anybody ever put e.g. a CC 3.0 Sharealike with citation license on one
>> or more figures in a W3C Rec.?  Any reason not to?
>
> I believe that would conflict with the Document License.

Well, obviously I wondered about that, and, equally obviously, IANAL,
but I thought that a single figure was likely to be reusable under
fair-use _anyway_, so we might as well ask for credit, and it's a way
to acknowledge a contribution from the 'artist'. . .

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