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I'm curious about something in the license, "no derivative works". How does this relate to fan fiction? I'm pretty sure using characters by name is verboten. But what if my fan fic is in the same universe with different characters, but responds or references main events?


Charles Stross has a writeup on fan fiction on how he perceives it: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/05/faq-fanf...

I suggest you go with his definition :-)


Well, since the license specifically prohibits derivative works, the question that remains is whether fan fiction is a derivative; it's a gray area: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_issues_with_fan_fiction#...


Presumably, whatever would be permitted under "fair use" in a standard copyrighted work can't be forbidden by using CC.


I would assume he would be pretty relaxed about that as Bob Howard is pretty much based on the BOFH.


Bob's initials are even B.O.F.H.


There can't be enough BOFH's in the universe, that is for sure, since they rule the universe after all ..




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