In debian-devel-announce, Andreas Schuldei issued the DebConf5 call for
papers, which in part states:
On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 23:44:27 +0100 Andreas Schuldei wrote:
> Fine Print Publication Rights
>
> Debconf requires non-exclusive publication rights to papers,
> presentations, and any additional handouts or audio/visual materials
> used in conjunction with the presentation. The authors retain all
> copyrights.
>
> The presentations will be recorded, and may be broadcast over the
> Internet. Any copies of the presentation will be made available under
> a creative commons license.
Since all Creative Commons licenses are considered non-free by the
Debian project, should we try and avoid their *mandatory* adoption for a
Debian conference?
I would think DebConf5 organization committee should be contacted about
this issue.
IMHO, non-free licenses in a DebConf should be discouraged to the
maximum extent, or, better yet, /completely rejected/...
What do you think?
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