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Hi there,

Just starting to read the PPAQuickStart wiki page, I discovered that
both on that page and in the PPA terms of service, it's necessary for
one of the licenses listed on http://opensource.org/licenses/category
to apply to the package.

What is the position for packages which contain material which is
distributed under licenses which aren't in that list but which are
still free?

For example, the ubuntu-docs package in Ubuntu is licensed partly
under GPL and partly under a Creative Commons (by-sa) license [1] and
I think other documentation related packages will frequently contain
material licensed under the GFDL.

Although the opensource.org website itself appears to be licensed
under a Creative Commons (attribution) license, no Creative Commons
licenses appear in the list, nor does the GFDL.

Obviously, uploading such packages to a PPA would put me in breach of
the terms of conditions, which I'd rather not do.

Can anyone clarify?

-- 
Matthew East
http://www.mdke.org
gnupg pub 1024D/0E6B06FF




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