On 6 December 2012 13:48, Galen Charlton <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 4:40 PM, Adalid Ortiz <[email protected]> wrote: > >> See please.... Creative Commons Licence >> >> // Maps v3.1.1 (823.1) >> // University of Hartford Libraries >> // >> // (c) 2012, Written by Brandon J C Fuller (except where noted) >> // Licenced under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike >> 3.0 Unported License -- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ >> // Documentation available at http://libill.hartford.edu/koha/maps >> > > The fact that code is licensed under a CC license is not sufficient, as > with the exception of the CC0, no current CC license is compatible with the > GPL -- and anything licensed under a CC-NC license is *definitely* not > compatible. In order for this code to be distributed with Koha, whoever > holds copyright to it, whether it is Brandon Fuller, the University of > Hartford, or some other entity, would have to license it under the GPL or > order a license that is compatible with the GPL. >
Further to that, any license with NC clause is at odds the freedom to use the software as you see fit. Which is Freedom 0, of the 4 software freedoms The freedom to run the program, for any purpose (freedom 0). It also violates clause 5 of the Open Source Definition http://opensource.org/osd-annotated Eric Raymond comments "Note that licenses that allow only noncommercial use do not qualify as open-source licenses, even if they are based on GPL or some other standard license. Such licenses discriminate against particular occupations, persons, and groups, a practice which the OSD's Clause 5 explicitly forbids." Chris _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org [email protected] http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
