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[tabbernuk <boamaod@xxxxxxxxx>]

I am sorry, the license was not updated on time and should be okay now.

When the Screenlets core framework and actual widget applications were
put into separate projects, the license changed. Now the Screenlets
project hardly contains any artwork and couple of icons used are
licensed by CC BY-SA 3.0 which is DFSG-compatible. Updated license file
is committed to the project and can be accessed at
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~screenlets-
dev/screenlets/trunk/view/head:/LICENSE

However, we recommend to distribute screenlets together with example
screenlets from indiv-screenlets project. By now recommended example
package for distribution is screenlets-pack-basic (for example, see
https://launchpad.net/~screenlets-dev/+archive/ppa/+files/screenlets-
pack-basic_0.0.3%7Ebzr1010%2B20110727221347%7Eoneiric1_all.deb), which
may not be fully DFSG-compatible as licenses for bunch of files are
unknown (Lyrics and Nowplaying are the problematic ones as it seems).
Please notice, that these problems do not affect distribution of
Screenlets core in any way and it is functional without actual example
screenlets.

For example screenlets I suggest that we either: (1) remove the
screenlets with problematic licenses from basic pack or (2) create a
separate DFSG compatible package with only explicitly clear DFSG-
compatible licenses. Can you recommend which is the best way to satisfy
the DFSG requirements?

** Changed in: screenlets
       Status: New => Fix Committed

** Changed in: screenlets
   Importance: Undecided => High

** Changed in: indiv-screenlets
   Importance: Undecided => High

** Changed in: indiv-screenlets
       Status: New => Confirmed

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/805603

Title:
  CC NC licences not DFSG Free

Status in Screenlets — individual widgets development:
  Confirmed
Status in Screenlets — a framework for desktop widgets:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  Hi, not sure if you saw http://bugs.debian.org/618876

  I'm pretty sure CC's NC licences aren't sufficiently free for Debian
  main or Ubuntu universe.

  Is that material not available under a freer licence?

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