CC-BY-ND license in debian

[Jaromír Mikeš]

2013/8/21 Felyza Wishbringer <felyza at gmail.com>

> CC-BY-ND
>
> Let's take a short look at this.
>
> CC, cool, Creative Commons
>
> BY, You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or
> licensor, which is fine in v3, and by proxy, 2.0 and 2.5 due to the 4b
> clause
> that allows redistribution of derivative works under later versions of
> the license.
>
> but
> ND, No Derivatives: You may not alter, transform, or build upon this work.
>
> DFSG states:
> Derived Works: The license must allow modifications and derived works, and
> must allow them to be distributed under the same terms as the license of
> the
> original software.
>
> 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.

best regards

mira
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