[ Replying to an old thread. For your convenience here's a link to the original thread: http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2012/05/msg00014.html ]
Francesco Poli <invernom...@paranoici.org> writes: >> > * remove the name of the Licensor from the product or service, if >> > required to do so by the Licensor. > > I am personally convinced that such a requirement is non-free. > > I think it's very similar to one of the clauses found in CC-v3.0 > licenses. See for instance my analysis of CC-by-v3.0: > https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2007/07/msg00124.html > > However, Debian FTP-masters disagree with me on the freeness of > works released under the terms of CC-v3.0 licenses: > https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2010/01/msg00084.html > Hence, it's *possible* (but not granted) that FTP-masters would consider > the above-discussed section 2.2 as acceptable, unfortunately. It seems that since CC has such a clause it is getting copied to other licenses. I heard of one such license this week: "Helsinki Region Infoshare – data pool licence 1. The licensor (holder of copyright or associated rights in the licensed material) hereby grants the licensee (user of the licensed material under the terms of this licence) a global, free of charge, non-exclusive, permanent licence to copy, disseminate, edit, combine and otherwise use the licensed material according to the terms and conditions set out in items 2 and 3 below. The licensed material may be used for non-commercial and commercial purposes. 2. The original copyright information in the licensed material must be acknowledged in the manner indicated by the licensor. This attribution must be deleted if so requested by the licensor. 3. The copyright details of the licensed material must not be attributed in any way that suggests that the publisher of the licensed material endorses the user or the use of the data material." -- http://www.hri.fi/lisenssit/hri-nimea/ Note that while CC has "to the extent practicable" to shoften the requirement this softening is not present anymore in "National Land Survey open data licence" or this "Helsinki Region Infoshare – data pool licence". Could this "to the extend practicable" be the key difference why CC would be considered free but these two new licenses would not? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/84a9vb2bjl....@sauna.l.org