Re: Guidance Needed on Licensing for a Debian Package

Soren Stoutner <[email protected]> Tue, 11 Mar 2025 17:07:24 -0700

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.devel.legal
Organization	Debian
Message-ID	<3146120.M6yMPqc0BA@soren-desktop>

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.

-- 
Soren Stoutner
[email protected]

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