On Sat, 2008-04-12 at 12:06 -0700, Rick Moen wrote:

> Quoting Yves-Alexis Perez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> 
> > But CC-BY-NC is not considered
> > DFSG-free so it may be an issue (see
> > http://people.debian.org/~evan/ccsummary.html)
> 
> It is considered DFSG-non-free by some number of (not identified) members
> of the public mailing list debian-legal, as summarised by my friend Evan
> Prodromou.  As Evan's page points out, "these summaries are not binding".
> 
> In short, IMO, you just can't go by such things.  Or shouldn't, anyway.

I agree with Rick 100%. But!

Anyone interested in Free Software and considering a content license
should strongly consider one of the licenses that comply with the Free
Cultural Works definition:

http://freedomdefined.org/Licenses

In particular, the Attribution-NonCommercial license from CC (mentioned
above) is incompatible in spirit with any existing definition of Free
Software.

-Evan

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