Re: Possible violation of license(s) on debian derivative
On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 10:39:53PM +, Etenil wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I contact you regarding a possible breach of the terms of at least the > GPL license on the Etch-based distribution Elive. > > http://www.elivecd.org/Help/License > > As you can see in the above link, the distribution is licensed under > CC-by-NC-SA 2.0, which forbids commercial use of the distribution. This > licensed is not recognised as free by the FSF and is not compatible with > the GPL. > Correct: there's also some fairly vague prohibition against using this for warfare - http://www.legalventure.com/clausulamariposa - apparently supported amongst others by Linux Espanol. I like the idea of a Butterfly clause - I'm assuming that they mean butterfly rather than a Spanish insult - but that makes it non-free as a whole, even granted the change noted by Don Armstrong. Can I suggest that you take it up with the people behind this: this is a derivative, not Debian proper. There is a slight problem in that the suggested email bounces you to a site which bounces you straight back to where you started :( Take care, AndyC > Please advise. > > Guillaume Pasquet > > > -- > 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/4b942b39.9010...@etenilsrealm.nl -- 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/20100308075333.ga7...@galactic.demon.co.uk
Re: Possible violation of license(s) on debian derivative
On Sun, 07 Mar 2010, Etenil wrote: > I contact you regarding a possible breach of the terms of at least > the GPL license on the Etch-based distribution Elive. > > http://www.elivecd.org/Help/License > > As you can see in the above link, the distribution is licensed under > CC-by-NC-SA 2.0, which forbids commercial use of the distribution. > This licensed is not recognised as free by the FSF and is not > compatible with the GPL. They appear to have already fixed the license statement to the correct one, which seems to have resolved this problem. Don Armstrong -- There is no form of lead-poisoning which more rapidly and thoroughly pervades the blood and bones and marrow than that which reaches the young author through mental contact with type metal. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes (Tilton 1947 p67) http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- 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/20100308022515.gd4...@volo.donarmstrong.com
Possible violation of license(s) on debian derivative
Hi everyone, I contact you regarding a possible breach of the terms of at least the GPL license on the Etch-based distribution Elive. http://www.elivecd.org/Help/License As you can see in the above link, the distribution is licensed under CC-by-NC-SA 2.0, which forbids commercial use of the distribution. This licensed is not recognised as free by the FSF and is not compatible with the GPL. Please advise. Guillaume Pasquet -- 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/4b942b39.9010...@etenilsrealm.nl
