CC-BY-ND license in debian

[Francesco Poli]

On Wed, 21 Aug 2013 15:18:43 +0200 Jaromír Mikeš wrote:

> 2013/8/21 Felyza Wishbringer <felyza at gmail.com>
> 
[...]
> > Obviously that ND (rather than SA) excludes it from Deb, directly.
> >
> > If upstream decides to go with CC-BY-SA v3, then that is compatible. ND is
> > explicitly not. Hope that helps.
> >
> > IANAL
> >
> 
> Thank you! It is clear now.

I would like to add some further considerations.

First of all, I agree that CC-by-nd is utterly against the spirit and
the letter of the DFSG. Specifically, works solely licensed under the
terms of CC-by-nd (any version) clearly fail to comply with DFSG#3.

Secondly, it's true that FTP-masters currently accept works licensed
under CC-by-sa-v3.0 and under CC-by-v3.0 into Debian main.

I personally disagree with them, as I am convinced that those two
licenses are *not* OK, but that's another story ([1], and, for more
details, [2][3])

[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2010/01/msg00084.html
[2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2007/03/msg00105.html
[3] https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2007/07/msg00124.html


I hope this helps.
Bye.


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