Re: package dkopp new upstream version copyright Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike 3.0 Unported

Sven Geuer <[email protected]> Sat, 19 Apr 2025 11:06:25 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.legal
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

On Sat, 2025-04-19 at 13:57 +0800, xiao sheng wen(肖盛文) wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Please CC to me.
> 
> I'm doing ITA dkopp #987089 [1], when I update to new upstream
> version upstream/8.1,
> I find copyright has some changes:
> 
> https://salsa.debian.org/debian/dkopp/-/blob/master/doc/copyright?ref_type=heads#L12
> 
> It say:
> 
> All other data and image files included in the source distribution:
> Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike 3.0 Unported
> https://creativecommons.org/licenses
> 
> CC-BY-NC-SA-3.0 is not obey DFSG[2], right?

Right. See https://wiki.debian.org/DFSGLicenses and especially
https://wiki.debian.org/DFSGLicenses#Licenses_that_are_DFSG-incompatible
> 
> This software is a GUI, if not pictures included, it will not use.
> 
> Suggestions is welcome!

Reach out to upstream, explain the situation to them, and suggest they
switch from CC-BY-NC-SA-3.0 to CC-BY-SA-3.0 or CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0.

Sven

> 
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=987089
> [2] https://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines

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