Bug#431794: whichwayisup: CC-v3.0 licenses do not meet the DFSG

[Francesco Poli]

Package: whichwayisup
Version: 0.7.0-1
Severity: serious
Justification: Policy 2.2.1

Hi!

The debian/copyright file[1] of this package states, in part:

| All game content, sounds and graphics are licensed
| under Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution license
| ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ )

As I replied[2] to you on debian-legal and debian-devel, I don't think
that CC-v3.0 licenses meet the DFSG.
In that message I referred you to some past threads, among which
you can find a detailed analysis[3] of CC-by-sa-v3.0: most of the
issues found in CC-by-sa-v3.0 also apply to CC-by-v3.0.

Please, try and persuade upstream to relicense (or dual-license) the
"game content" under the same license as the "game code", that is
to say the GNU GPL v2.
Or under some other clearly DFSG-free license, such as the Expat/MIT
license[4].


[1] http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/w/whichwayisup/whichwayisup_0.7.0-1/whichwayisup.copyright
[2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2007/05/msg00195.html
[3] http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2007/03/msg00105.html
[4] http://www.jclark.com/xml/copying.txt