Re: oCERT

[Evan Prodromou <evan@debian.org>]

On Sat, 2008-04-12 at 12:06 -0700, Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting Yves-Alexis Perez (corsac@debian.org):
>
> > But CC-BY-NC is not considered
> > DFSG-free so it may be an issue (see
> > http://people.debian.org/~evan/ccsummary.html)
>
> It is considered DFSG-non-free by some number of (not identified) members
> of the public mailing list debian-legal, as summarised by my friend Evan
> Prodromou.  As Evan's page points out, "these summaries are not binding".
>
> In short, IMO, you just can't go by such things.  Or shouldn't, anyway.
I agree with Rick 100%. But!

Anyone interested in Free Software and considering a content license should strongly consider one of the licenses that comply with the Free Cultural Works definition:

http://freedomdefined.org/Licenses

In particular, the Attribution-NonCommercial license from CC (mentioned above) is incompatible in spirit with any existing definition of Free Software.

-Evan

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