Re: None FLOSS license for a logo?

On Tue, 27 Aug 2024 at 10:25:34 +0000, [email protected] wrote:
> This sounds to me that it is not clear if "CC BY-NC-ND 4.0" is allowed in
> Debian GNU/Linux or not. Am I right?

No, the policy is quite clear. CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0 is not a Free Software
license according to the Debian Free Software Guidelines [1], therefore
it is not allowed in Debian.

It would be allowed in non-free, which is not part of Debian, but I'm
guessing that you would prefer your software to be in Debian main, rather
than being moved to non-free just because its logo is non-Free (or,
perhaps more likely, remaining in main with its logo deleted).

The lack of clarity here is that a participant in this list who is not a
member of the Debian project and does not speak on behalf of the Debian
project is giving you misleading information.

> Isn't there a list of accepted licences?

There is no single list of accepted licenses, but the unofficial wiki page
https://wiki.debian.org/DFSGLicenses#Licenses_that_are_DFSG-incompatible
specifically mentions the CC-BY-NC-SA family of licenses as not
DFSG-compatible. -ND is more restrictive (less Free) than -SA, therefore
it is also not DFSG-compatible.

> Or is there an official Debian institution I can ask about it?

Officially, the only authority on what is and isn't allowed in Debian is the
archive administrators team (ftp team), <https://ftp-master.debian.org/>.

Unofficially, please don't waste their limited time. CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0 is
unambiguously not a Free Software license and would not be accepted.

    smcv

[1] https://www.debian.org/social_contract
    DFSG point 3: DFSG requires derived works to be allowed, -ND forbids them
    DFSG point 6: DFSG requires commercial use to be allowed, -NC forbids it