Re: [Debconf-team] [Debconf-video] change of video licence

2011-07-17 Thread Jimmy Kaplowitz
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 01:08:01AM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Sonntag, 17. Juli 2011, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > Might be a good idea. However, I feel I need to ask: Why not simply move > > to cc-by-sa and 'forget' about the debconf-video license? Or are the two > > incompatible? > > good po

Re: [Debconf-team] [Debconf-video] change of video licence

2011-07-17 Thread Holger Levsen
On Sonntag, 17. Juli 2011, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > Might be a good idea. However, I feel I need to ask: Why not simply move > to cc-by-sa and 'forget' about the debconf-video license? Or are the two > incompatible? good point. I dont think they are, the old licence is basically the 2clause bsd l

Re: [Debconf-team] [Debconf-video] change of video licence

2011-07-17 Thread Judit Foglszinger
The debconf-video license is a modifed MIT license, more exactly: The word "software" ist replaced by the word "work". So it can be regarded as nearly the same thing, and not as a strange homebrewn license. http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/

Re: [Debconf-team] [Debconf-video] change of video licence

2011-07-17 Thread Judit Foglszinger
> Might be a good idea. However, I feel I need to ask: Why not simply move > to cc-by-sa and 'forget' about the debconf-video license? Or are the two > incompatible? Guess, no one is really able to tell you, unless he's a lawyer. This is exactly the problem with cc licenses. They pretend to be easi

Re: [Debconf-team] [Debconf-video] change of video licence

2011-07-17 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 09:53:04AM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > Hi, > > in previous years we released the videos under the 'DebConf video licence' > which is available here: > http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/LICENCE' > > Then we got a request to relicence the video from