Evan Prodromou wrote: > Here's the poop, in a nutshell: after a few months of back-and-forths, > we worked out a draft license that the working group felt was compatible > with the DFSG. CC hopes to apply the changes to the upcoming CC 3.0 > license suite draft, and that version will be available for public > review. Unless there are other changes that make the licenses non-free > (they're dealing with other groups besides Debian, of course), the 3.0 > Attribution and Attribution-ShareAlike licenses should be > DFSG-compatible and we should allow works available under those licenses > in main. Excellent! Thank you very much for your work on this issue. > Works under CC licenses with the NoDerivs or NonCommercial elements will > still be incompatible with the DFSG, of course, and works under 1.0, > 2.0, and 2.5 versions of the Attribution and Attribution-ShareAlike > licenses will still be incompatible. But for upstream projects that use > earlier versions of by or by-sa, there should be a clear upgrade path. This seems like one case where it is rather unfortunate that CC didn't standardize on an "or any later version" model. - Josh Triplett
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