Re: kiten nonfree content

Albert Astals Cid <[email protected]> Fri, 07 Feb 2014 00:57:06 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.licensing
Message-ID <1894905.NvQamajcpo@xps>
El Dijous, 6 de febrer de 2014, a les 10:52:44, Rex Dieter va escriure:
> I've been made aware that apparently kiten bundles some non-free content
> (see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=969411 ), and it's taken me
> awhile to followup. sorry.
> 
> Anyway, per
> https://projects.kde.org/projects/kde/kdeedu/kiten/repository/revisions/mast
> er/changes/data/edrdg_license.html
> 
> "Note that the SKIP codes are under their own similar Creative Common
> licence. See Jack Halpern's conditions of use(1) page. Note that commercial
> applications using the SKIP codes must have prior permission from Jack
> Halpern."
> 
> which is essentially CC-BY-NC-SA, but as far as I can tell, is not in
> compliance with kde licensing policies.
> 
> It would appear debian patches this out (2), but not sure of the reasoning
> (whether it's for licensing and/or to support external kanjidic)
> 
> 
> Not sure of how best to proceed here, suggestions?  file a bug? contact the
> module maintainer(s)?

I'd say both.

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> -- Rex
> 
> 
> (1) http://www.kanji.org/kanji/dictionaries/skip_permission.htm
> (2) see kanjidic_2012.05.09-1.diff.gz from
> http://packages.debian.org/source/sid/kanjidic
> 
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