Re: CC-BY-ND license in debian

CC-BY-ND

Let's take a short look at this.

CC, cool, Creative Commons

BY, You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or
licensor, which is fine in v3, and by proxy, 2.0 and 2.5 due to the 4b clause
that allows redistribution of derivative works under later versions of the license.

but

ND, No Derivatives: You may not alter, transform, or build upon this work.

DFSG states:

Derived Works: The license must allow modifications and derived works, and
must allow them to be distributed under the same terms as the license of the
original software.

Obviously that ND (rather than SA) excludes it from Deb, directly.

If upstream decides to go with CC-BY-SA v3, then that is compatible. ND is

explicitly not. Hope that helps.

IANAL

On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 8:36 AM, Joe Healy <joehealy@gmail.com> wrote:

On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 10:19 PM, Jaromír Mikeš <mira.mikes@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
>
> upstream thinking to release under CC-BY-ND
> He would like to have control over derived work.
> Is CC-BY-ND license debian friendly? I mean is fine for debian "main"?
>

Thank you for looking to make software available in Debian.

I am not a lawyer, but my understanding is that strictly speaking,
even packaging something under CC-BY-ND for Debian may be against the
licence.

Under the CC-BY-ND licence, it may be that Debian could be considered
a "Collective Work", but this seems a little risky.

The relevant parts of the Debian Free Software Guidelines[1] are items 3 and 4.

I am fairly sure it could not go into main, and I think it is doubtful
even for non-free (due to the restriction on derived works).

If upstream is keen to have it in major distributions, then maybe a
different licence is more appropriate[2].

Hope that helps,

Joe

[1] http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines
[2] https://wiki.debian.org/DFSGLicenses

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