CC-BY-ND license in debian

[Joe Healy]

On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 10:19 PM, Jaromír Mikeš <mira.mikes at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> upstream thinking to release under CC-BY-ND
> He would like to have control over derived work.
> Is CC-BY-ND license debian friendly? I mean is fine for debian "main"?
>

Thank you for looking to make software available in Debian.

I am not a lawyer, but my understanding is that strictly speaking,
even packaging something under CC-BY-ND for Debian may be against the
licence.

Under the CC-BY-ND licence, it may be that Debian could be considered
a "Collective Work", but this seems a little risky.

The relevant parts of the Debian Free Software Guidelines[1] are items 3 and 4.

I am fairly sure it could not go into main, and I think it is doubtful
even for non-free (due to the restriction on derived works).

If upstream is keen to have it in major distributions, then maybe a
different licence is more appropriate[2].

Hope that helps,

Joe

[1] http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines
[2] https://wiki.debian.org/DFSGLicenses