On Wed, 23 Mar 2005, J. Antas wrote:
Debian weekly news reported an analysis performed on the Creative Commons
licenses.
Creative Commons 2.0 Licenses. Evan Prodromou [10]worked on the final
revision to the draft summary of the Creative Commons 2.0 (CC)
licenses. This document gives a summary of the opinion of debian-legal
members on the six licenses that make up the CC license suite.
Allegedly, there are already over 1 million works released under a CC
license.
I guess it might make sense to find a consensu about the consequences of
this outside the Debian world. For Debian it means: We can not distribute
non-free stuff in our main distribution. I personally like to provide
also documentation in form of Debian packages because you can perfectly
read the installed stuff offline and it is easy to find the documentation.
That's why I'm maintaining some documentation packages.
But what are the consequences outside?
Asking authors for changing their license will not work (I tried this
for my packaged documentation). So we have just to accept this and find
out whether it really harms for one or the other project. If we think
there are some _practical_ disadvantages that a certain piece of documentation
as no license which fits the very strict DFSG, we should try to find a
way to cope with this and we should think about alternatives. But I
personally do also have no alternative and thus I provide all my images
in my photo gallery at
http://fam-tille.de/sparetime.html
and those images I offered to WikiPedia under GFDL - just there is no other
license which fits (according to my knowledge).
An (not honest) idea of mine was:
1. Move all non-free documentation of Debian out of main to non-free
(this would include GNU Emacs manual)
2. Follow the request of RMS and do not provide non-free at the Debian
mirrors.
Perhaps this would make some people think about this stuff (but it would
be a shame to loose the non-free area just to convince people to stop beeing
stubborn.)
Kind regards
Andreas.
PS: The nice effect of having just another list is that the first mail
after announcing the new list was a cross-post ...
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