Kari Pahula <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Here's what the [CC-BY-NC-SA-1.0] license says about NC: > You may not exercise any of the rights granted to You in Section 3 > above in any manner that is primarily intended for or directed toward > commercial advantage or private monetary compensation. The exchange of > the Work for other copyrighted works by means of digital file-sharing > or otherwise shall not be considered to be intended for or directed > toward commercial advantage or private monetary compensation, provided > there is no payment of any monetary compensation in connection with > the exchange of copyrighted works. > > However, if you try to download the music and choose Non-Commercial > license on magnatune's download page they state (at > https://magnatune.com/artists/license/student): > > Common examples of uses we consider non-commercial are: > ... > GNU/Berkeley/OSI licensed games or software that are given away for > free (or included incidentally inside a larger distribution, even in a > pay-distribution)
This implicitly excludes any software that is *not* "given away for free". It is contradictory in the parenthetical part; "even a pay-distribution" conflicts with the actual license text you quoted above. > Would this suffice to override what the license says about NC use? > If so, it would seem that this would satisfy DFSG1. Yes, it seems to satisfy DFSG1. > I'm still unsure whether it would run afoul of DFSG6 or DFSG9. If > you were to take the music out of the game and distribute it alone, > the NC part would certainly kick in. That certainly seems to fail DFSG6. Any part of Debian must be free even when a recipient takes it out of Debian. -- \ Eccles: "I just saw the Earth through the clouds!" Lew: "Did | `\ it look round?" Eccles: "Yes, but I don't think it saw me." | _o__) -- The Goon Show, _Wings Over Dagenham_ | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
