discuss: license issues
Subject:
Re: license issues
From:
Rick Moen ####@####.####
Date:
28 Apr 2004 01:05:01 -0000
Message-Id: <20040428010458.GX19884@linuxmafia.com>
Quoting Mary Gardiner ####@####.####
> A *quick* search of the debian-legal archives at
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/ suggests that none of the licences
> commonly suggested here (Creative Commons, GFDL) are Debian free.
http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/ says at the top:
"This list is not moderated, posting is allowed to anyone."
One (obvious) consequence is that any old crank can post, and some
inevitably do.
Thus, for example, nobody ever posted any serious, credible DFSG
objection to the Creative Commons Attribution, Attribution-ShareAlike,
and ShareAlike version 1.0 licences or 2.0 drafts -- poster Nathanael
Nerode's complaint about trademark licensing nothwithstanding.
> They suggest that the GPL and BSD licences are suitable but of course,
> both are actually designed as software licences.
FYI, nothing significant stands in the way of either of those licenses
being used for non-software works.
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