Relicensing CC-BY-SA 2.x as 3.0 (was: playonlinux_3.4-1_i386.changes REJECTED)

Evgeni Golov evgeni at debian.org
Thu May 7 21:43:57 UTC 2009


On Thu, 07 May 2009 20:38:56 +0000 Mark Hymers wrote:

> I'll have to reject this package due to:
> 
> Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 License Agreement
> 
> The CC 2.5 licenses are DFSG-incompatible (whilst the relevant 3.0 ones are ok).

I heard it is allowed to relicense 2.x stuff as 3.0, as it is with GPL
with "or later" clause? What's ftp-masters opinion on this?

Regards
Evgeni

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