Re: Debian Presentation - license and salsa.debian.org
On Thu, May 02, 2019 at 04:33:46PM +0100, Paul Sutton wrote:
> On 02/05/2019 16:23, Boyuan Yang wrote:
> > I just noticed something -- the template your slides are using [2] is
> > licensed under CC-BY-NC 3.0, which is consider incompatible with DFSG
> > [1]. Is there any possibility to switch to a compatible one?
>
> Sure no problem
>
> so something like this
>
> 1. Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-by), v1.0
> <https://wiki.debian.org/DFSGLicenses#Creative_Commons_Attribution_License_.28CC-by.29.2C_v1.0>
> 2. Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-Share Alike
> (CC-by-nc-sa)
> <https://wiki.debian.org/DFSGLicenses#Creative_Commons_Attribution-Non_Commercial-Share_Alike_.28CC-by-nc-sa.29>
> 3. Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike Generic (CC-BY-SA), v1.0
> <https://wiki.debian.org/DFSGLicenses#Creative_Commons_Attribution-Share_Alike_Generic_.28CC-BY-SA.29.2C_v1.0>
>
> With regard to non commercial, I think this means people make money from
> it, but would that also mean that people can't give a presentation and
> be paid for doing so,
No, NC would still allow people asking money for giving presentations. Rules
about giving a presentation are not covered by the license on the source
itself. The license is merely about distributing and changing the source. A
NC-license does not allow to ask money for access to the source, and is
therefore not DFSG-compliant.
> so would 1 and 3 be better.
Indeed; I'd e.g. go for either CC-BY v4.0 or CC-BY-SA v4.0.
> I am happy to go with whatever is appropriate.
Cool :)
Bye,
Joost
PS/NB: disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. And Debian's license experts hang out at
debian-legal@lists.debian.org.
> > As I have added a cc license to the actual presentation file(s) I am
> > working on. I have just tried to do the same with the source
> > repository
> > on salsa.debian.org <http://salsa.debian.org>
> >
> > There appears to be no reference in the license template pull-down for
> > creative commons. While this is probably not the right place to raise
> > this. However I am guessing that as the publicity team are more likely
> > to be producing documents e.g posters, presentations, graphics, etc
> > rather then source code, is there a way to resolve this, or whom would
> > we contact so that cc licenses (and similar) can be added.
> >
> > Granted, I could simply add a file called license with the info in to
> > the repository and push it, but that won't help other contributors.
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