Bug#775532: license of the CSL scheme files
Hi Daniel,
Bruce D'Arcus and I think that the MIT license might be the best
option for relicensing the CSL schema. I just proposed the change on
our mailing list
(http://xbiblio-devel.2463403.n2.nabble.com/MIT-license-as-default-for-CSL-software-tp7579193p7579395.html),
but I don't expect any objections. We certainly always wish to be
FOSS-compatible and nonrestrictive.
If nobody objects to the MIT license, it might still be a while before
I get to updating all the schema files with the new license, so maybe
I'll just make a note to that effect on http://citationstyles.org/.
You can also rely on this email for permission to package the schema
under MIT-license terms.
Best,
Rintze
On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 5:19 AM, Daniel Stender
<debian@danielstender.com> wrote:
> Hi Rintze,
>
> (we've been in contact last year on my TUGBOAT article on CSL)
>
> I'm packaging Brecht Machiel's citepyroc-py for Debian and we have an issue
> over the license of the CSL scheme files (schema/*) which are shipped with this:
> for the locales and the style files it's clearly stated (headers, sources) that
> they're CC-BY-SA-3.0, but the only thing we could find stated for the scheme files
> is "Permission to freely use, copy and distribute", which doesn't comply to the
> free software guidelines of Debian. Is it's really mend that the scheme
> files are distributed under more restrict conditions than the other elements of CSL?
> If that's not the case, could this be declared somewhere?
>
> Greetings,
> Daniel Stender
>
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