Yet another bunch of licences

[Juhapekka Tolvanen <juhtolv@cc.jyu.fi>]

These are really important projects that claim to be free in the sense
of freedom.  But I'd like to know, what Free Software Foundation and
readers of debian-legal think about those licences. So, please, evaluate
those licences carefully

And I hope, that then FSF can make some statements about those licences
in this WWW-page:

http://www.fsf.org/licenses/license-list.html

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http://creativecommons.org/

This is a bunch of licences. It is possible to choose one after
answering some questions in WWW-forms:

http://creativecommons.org/license/

Complete list of licences is here:

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/

It is very easy to say, that at least some of those licences are not
compatible with Debian Free Software Guidelines and Open Source
Definition: All NoDerivs- and NonCommercial-licenses.

What is left after ignoring them, are these two licences:

"Attribution"
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/1.0

"ShareAlike"
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/sa/1.0

"Attribution-ShareAlike"
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/1.0

So, concentrate on them, first.

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https://www.helixcommunity.org/

Helix DNA is multi-licenced software project. One of those licences is
meant to be compatible with Open Source Definition.

https://www.helixcommunity.org/content/licenses
https://www.helixcommunity.org/content/rpsl

Open Source Initiative has already accepted it:

http://www.opensource.org/licenses/real.php

This question still remains: Can I listen and watch to RealAudio- and
RealVideo-files with completely free software, if I install only
RPSL-licenced software from Helix DNA?

BTW who want to create Debian-package of Helix DNA?


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