Hi, On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 11:55:40AM +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > Nils Dagsson Moskopp <n...@dieweltistgarnichtso.net> writes: > > Developers often point to the music they used for the reason behind > > that and claim that the scope of the Creative Commons ShareAlike > > licensing requires that code must also be licensed CC BY-NC-SA, thus > > definitely non-free according to DFSG and FSF criteria. > > This would be a question of whether one (part of the) work constitutes a > “derived work” of the prior one. If a jurisdiction would rule that the > answer is affirmative, then yes, the derived work must comply with the > license conditions of the prior work.
Alternatively, you can point out how many GPL'd games are using CC BY-SA music, while the licenses are incompatible, and the music was composed independently of the project: - http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//main/f/fretsonfire-songs-muldjord/fretsonfire-songs-muldjord_2.dfsg-1_copyright - http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//main/s/supertuxkart/supertuxkart_0.8.1-2_copyright - http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//main/f/freedink-data/freedink-data_1.08.20140901-1_copyright - http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//main/f/flare/flare_0.19-1_copyright and even GPL + weird non-free license (though in this case from the same project): - http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//non-free/w/warsow-data/warsow-data_0.42-1_copyright There are countless other examples in the archive. Of course the combination BY-SA+BY-NC cannot be used in a commercial context, but as you point out it should be possible to make an alternative BY-SA-only with music replacements (or no music). SunRider is describing themselves as "a 100% free game which is open source, DRM-free, and free to modify and use for all personal and non-commercial purposes" (http://sunrider-vn.com/main/donate/) so even if their repo says "NC" (https://github.com/vaendryl/Sunrider) I believe they are good-faith'd. Cheers! Sylvain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141111095330.ga16...@mail.beuc.net
