Thanks Soren, my main worry is that what we call the right to modify is expressed as:
> you are free to adapt the information and > any act which is restricted by copyright or database right [...] and > includes without limitation distributing, copying, adapting, modifying > as may be technically necessary to use in a different mode or format. One possible interpretation may be: If the data here, despite being factual and non-copyrightable, is protected by a database right (because some people worked hard to put all the numbers in the same table), then you do not have the right to modify it except for changing the format. Which is not Free for Debian. For instance, let's imaging there is a table with the UK population from 1500 to 2000, it may be not permitted to change the number for the year 1800 to 3,000,000,000. Which one can argue users do not need to do, but again would not be compatible with the DFSG. Am I worrying too much? Have a nice day, Charles Le Mon, Jan 27, 2025 at 09:09:53PM -0700, Soren Stoutner a écrit : > Charles, > > On Monday, January 27, 2025 6:07:54 PM MST Charles Plessy wrote: > > Hello everybody, > > > > on a package update I have hit the Open Government License 3.0... > > > > https://spdx.org/licenses/OGL-UK-3.0.html > > > > I could not find works licensed under these terms via > > codesearch.debian.net, and was not successful finding useful information > > with search engines. > > > > Does anybody know if it was already tried through the FTP team? > > I have not previously heard of the OGLv3.0 license, but reading over it, the > terms do not > appear to be a problem as long as what is being licensed does not belong to > the list of > enumerated exceptions to which the license does not apply: > > > This licence does not cover: > > personal data in the Information; > Information that has not been accessed by way of publication or disclosure > under > information access legislation (including the Freedom of Information Acts for > the UK and > Scotland) by or with the consent of the Information Provider; > departmental or public sector organisation logos, crests and the Royal Arms > except where > they form an integral part of a document or dataset; > military insignia; > third party rights the Information Provider is not authorised to license; > other intellectual property rights, including patents, trade marks, and > design rights; and > identity documents such as the British Passport > > > I would imagine it is unlikely that what you are packaging contains any of > the above > information, but you should make a reasonable effort to assure it doesn’t > before > submitting the package to the NEW queue. > > Regarding the DFSG status of the license, the OGLv3.0 itself claims it can be > relicensed as > CC-BY-4.0, which is DFSG-free. > > "These terms are compatible with the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 > and the > Open Data Commons Attribution License, both of which license copyright and > database > rights. This means that when the Information is adapted and licensed under > either of > those licences, you automatically satisfy the conditions of the OGL when you > comply with > the other licence. The OGLv3.0 is Open Definition compliant." > > -- > Soren Stoutner > so...@debian.org -- Charles Plessy Nagahama, Yomitan, Okinawa, Japan Debian Med packaging team http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tooting from home https://framapiaf.org/@charles_plessy - You do not have my permission to use this email to train an AI -
