Re: CC-BY-ND license in debian

[Jaromír Mikeš <mira.mikes@gmail.com>]

2013/8/21 Felyza Wishbringer <felyza@gmail.com>

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

Thank you! It is clear now.

best regards

mira