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Re: Guidance Needed on Licensing for a Debian Package



On Tuesday, March 11, 2025 2:13:27 AM MST Francesco Poli wrote:

> On Mon, 10 Mar 2025 23:26:25 +0100 (CET) Raul G wrote:

>

> [...]

>

> > Link to the copyright text: https://paste.debian.net/1362371/

>

> [...]

>

> I see the following:

>

> [...]

>

> | Files: Ukranian/*

> | Copyright: 2014, Sergiy Tkachenko / 4th february

> | License: CC-BY-ND-4

>

> [...]

>

> My own personal opinion about Creative Commons licenses is that they

> are all non-free (with the only exception of CC0 and, possibly, of

> CC-by-sa-v4.0, due to its one-way compatibility with GPLv3).

>

> Unfortunately, Debian ftp masters disagree with me and accept

> CC-by-sa-v3.0, CC-by-sa-v4.0, CC-by-v3.0, and CC-by-v4.0 into Debian

> main.

>

> Anyway, CC-by-nd-v4.0 is definitely unable to meet the DFSG.


Good catch.  Somehow I didn’t notice the CC-BY-ND-4 when I was looking over the licenses.  Definitely DFSG non-free.


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Soren Stoutner

soren@debian.org

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