On Sun, 14 Jul 2013 09:44:57 +0200 Johannes Schauer wrote: > Hi, Hello Johannes, > > just for a short confirmation: > > I have a package which is licensed under CC-BY 2.0 Ouch! :-( > > This page [1] doesnt specifically list CC-BY 2.0 but I found this page [2] > which explains why CC-BY 2.0 is not DFSG free. Exactly, the summary [2] by Evan Prodromou is also linked from the wiki page [1] (in the section about CC-by v1.0, which seems to be slightly outdated, since it claims that CC-v2.0 are still under discussion...). I confirm that works licensed under the terms of CC-by-v2.0 are considered not acceptable for Debian main (in other words, they fail to comply with the DFSG). > > My question is: is the resource as [2] still reflecting the correct reasons for > why CC-BY 2.0 is not DFSG free? I think it is, although please be aware that it is a summary of debian-legal discussions, and *not* an official Debian Project statement, as far as I know. [...] > I am about to package software which is licensed under CC-BY 2.0 so it must > probably go into non-free. This page [1] also doesnt talk about CC-BY > 3.0 but if upstream would change the license version to 3.0 then it would be > DFSG free, right? In a nutshell, it would be accepted by the Debian Project, but I personally disagree. The status of CC-v3.0 licenses with respect to the Debian Project (and to debian-legal and to me...) is summarized in https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2010/01/msg00084.html While you are at persuading upstream to re-license, I strongly recommend that you persuade them to re-license (or, at least, dual-license) under uncontroversially DFSG-free terms. For instance, the work could be re-licensed (or dual-licensed) under the Expat license [3] and nobody would have any doubt about the its freeness! [3] http://www.jclark.com/xml/copying.txt I hope this helps. Bye. -- http://www.inventati.org/frx/frx-gpg-key-transition-2010.txt New GnuPG key, see the transition document! ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == CA01 1147 9CD2 EFDF FB82 3925 3E1C 27E1 1F69 BFFE
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