On Thu, Apr 09, 2020 at 11:30:27AM +0200, Jeroen Ooms wrote:
> > Debian has a special emphasis on software freedom, but even for other
> > projects, a non-commercial license like the CC-4-BY-NC-ND can be
> > problematic. For instance, a Linux CD image containing your package can
> > not be sold, a freelancer can not organise a paid course in which the
> > mp3 file of your package would be used in a way or another, etc. Thus,
> > a Free replacement of the mp3 file would be very useful.
>
> I'm confused now. So does Debian not accept CC-BY licenses
> all-together or is this license is considered non-free only because of
> the NC part? Or the ND part? Or because of the mp3 format?
I did a short
$ grep 'License: CC-BY*' /usr/share/doc/*/copyright | sed -e 's/^.*License:
*//' -e 's/ or.*//' | sort | uniq
CC-BY
CC-BY-2.5
CC-BY-3.0
CC-BY-3.0-famfamfam
CC-BY-3.0-US
CC-BY-4.0
CC-BY-SA
CC-BY-SA-2.0-IT
CC-BY-SA-2.5
CC-BY-SA-3.0
CC-BY-SA-3.0
CC-BY-SA-3.0+
CC-BY-SA3.0
CC-BY-SA-3.0-Unported
CC-BY-SA-3.0-US
CC-BY-SA-4.0
on my system to find several example licenses that are acceptable. Mp3
is OK since what I did right now is to remove your sample and symlink to
/usr/share/doc/libmp3-tag-perl/examples/empty_10sec.mp3
of package libmp3-tag-perl. This makes some of the original tests fail
which I excluded. If I did not misunderstood the licenses the -N[CD]
parts are preventing us from doing changes which is again Debian policy.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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