Re: Free art license, CC and DFSG
Andrew Saunders <syntaxis@gmail.com> wrote: [...]
> In his role as DPL, that same ftp-master (or "archive maintainer", if
> you prefer) has endorsed [2] the Debian Creative Commons Workgroup
> which opined [3] that the CCPL 3.0 is suitable for Debian main. [...]
I think [3]'s the opinion of the Workgroup leader. The Workgroup's
last opinion was http://people.debian.org/~evan/draftresponse.txt
[...]
> Similarly, while MJ Ray argues [5] that packages under the Open Font
> License making their way into main is proof of incompetence and/or
> oversight on the ftp-masters' part,
Misjudgements of a fairly vague twisty licence from ftp-masters,
maintainers, debian-legal contributors and more.
By the way, the quoted ftp-master/DPL also claims[6] 'The DFSG refers
to copyright licensing' when it clearly doesn't refer to it even once.
So is there the possibility of ftp-master misreading a licence?
[6] - http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2007/02/msg00027.html
> is it not possible that they
> simply disagree with debian-legal's analysis and decided to let the
> packages in on that basis, just as they did in the case of Sun's Java
> licensing?
Sun's Java is not yet in main and IIRC debian-legal wasn't asked before
that same DPL fast-tracked it into non-free. The response of some was
'on your heads be it' because it was done by a few clearly-identified
people and it's not part of debian.
Otherwise, good summary.
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MJR/slef
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