robert.pol...@posteo.net dixit: >> the terms of the Creative Commons >> Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license (version 3.0 or later)
The -NC- licence types of Creative Commons are nōn-free. Anything under those licences is not OSD/OKD-conformant. > The main question seems to be whether it would be feasible to remove and > replace the noncommercially licensed files, and whether this would be so much It may or may not be possible, but as currently distributed, Geogebra is not Open Source. Depending on how intermingled these files are, it would be possible for someone to invest a substantial amount of time to fork both old and new versions of Geogebra and bring them together mixing the OSS parts of the new version with the other files from the old version, and thus create a new OSS fork of Geogebra, but that’d incite substantial maintenance efforts. > On the one hand it restricted the (mostly hobbyist) Debian contributors, on > the The noncommercial exclusion has been understood to also restrict inclusion on a CD/DVD/etc. which is sold, which is a typical thing for OSS projects to do, even if just to bring back in the cost, but also for funding. bye, //mirabilos -- I believe no one can invent an algorithm. One just happens to hit upon it when God enlightens him. Or only God invents algorithms, we merely copy them. If you don't believe in God, just consider God as Nature if you won't deny existence. -- Coywolf Qi Hunt _______________________________________________ The opinions expressed in this email are those of the sender and not necessarily those of the Open Source Initiative. Official statements by the Open Source Initiative will be sent from an opensource.org email address. License-discuss mailing list License-discuss@lists.opensource.org http://lists.opensource.org/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss_lists.opensource.org