Re: The Project Gutenberg license, packages using its books as testdata

2025-03-08 Thread Soren Stoutner
On Saturday, March 8, 2025 7:46:58 PM MST Maytham Alsudany wrote: > Hi debian-legal, > > Today I was reviewing a package[1] that contains a file[2] from Project > Gutenberg. d/copyright had listed it under Public-Domain, and it would > seem that way from the website[3] where it says "Public domain

Re: The Project Gutenberg license, packages using its books as testdata

2025-03-08 Thread Soren Stoutner
On Saturday, March 8, 2025 7:46:58 PM MST Maytham Alsudany wrote: > Hi debian-legal, > > Today I was reviewing a package[1] that contains a file[2] from Project > Gutenberg. d/copyright had listed it under Public-Domain, and it would > seem that way from the website[3] where it says "Public domain

The Project Gutenberg license, packages using its books as testdata

2025-03-08 Thread Maytham Alsudany
Hi debian-legal, Today I was reviewing a package[1] that contains a file[2] from Project Gutenberg. d/copyright had listed it under Public-Domain, and it would seem that way from the website[3] where it says "Public domain in the USA", but the header in the file indicated that it was licensed "und

Re: The Project Gutenberg license, packages using its books as testdata

2025-03-08 Thread Maytham Alsudany
On Sat, 2025-03-08 at 20:24 -0700, Soren Stoutner wrote: [...] > > I agree with your analysis, the Project Gutenberg license is not DFSG- > free, most particularly because of the restrictions on commercial use. It appears this has been discussed before: https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2017/