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Re: PPA licenses



On Fri, 2007-08-24 at 10:45 +0100, Matthew Revell wrote:

> 
> > That satisfies me fine, because the packages I'm interested in are;
> > although if PPA is provided to people for more systems than Ubuntu
> > (Ubuntu derivatives and Debian?), this may become problematic, as I
> > think mpt pointed out during the meeting.
> 
> > If that does give rise to problems, I wonder if it might be possible
> > to combine references to opensource.org with a reference to GNU
> > accepted free licenses [1]. That would cover the licenses I'm
> > interested in and hopefully most others.
> > 
> > [1] http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#SoftwareLicenses

Not allowing Creative Commons BY-SA seems really backwards. I'd
certainly not allow -NC or -ND as they are non free.

Wikipedia uses the GFDL and many other open content projects use
CC-BY-SA. Missing these out makes it looks like you don't understand
open content licensing.

Caroline





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