Tim Haynes <thay...@openlinksw.com> writes: > I hope this is the most appropriate place for this question; if not, > my apologies.
Yes, this is a forum explicitly for discussing the legality of distributing works in the Debian system. > I would like to check whether I can include in my project a Javascript > source file, licensed under CC by-SA v2.5. > > The DFSGLicenses page[0] permits v3.0 and v4.0, but excludes v1.0 of > this licence. > > The licence itself[1] has a clause 4b stating I "...may distribute, > publicly display, publicly perform, or publicly digitally perform a > Derivative Work only under the terms of this License, a later version of > this License with the same License Elements as this License, ...". > > Can I claim to be using it under v3.0 and include it in a Debian package > without conflict? Your analysis agrees with mine, that you have explicit permission from the copyright holder to do this. Whether the whole work is DFSG-compatible depends also on the license conditions of the other parts of the work. -- \ “An eye for an eye would make the whole world blind.” —Mohandas | `\ K. Gandhi | _o__) | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/85egqchxdb....@benfinney.id.au
