CC-BY-ND license in debian

Alessio Treglia alessio at debian.org
Wed Aug 21 08:34:01 UTC 2013


On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 8:47 AM, Matteo F. Vescovi <mfv.debian at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 09:44:50AM +0200, Jaromír Mikeš wrote:
>> upstream thinking to release under CC-BY-ND
>> He would like to have control over derived work.
>> Is CC-BY-ND license debian friendly?

No, it isn't.
The "No Derivative Works" clause makes the work suitable for non-free only.

That's just my humble opinion though, please get in touch with debian-legal.

Cheers,

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