[Fedora-legal-list] ExtJS license

[Nils Philippsen]

On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 20:55 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Nils Philippsen wrote:
> 
> > 
> > --- 8< --- ExtJS v2.0.1 ------
> > http://extjs.com/license
> > 
> > 
> > License of CSS and Graphics ("Assets")
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > The Assets distributed with Ext are licensed for use ONLY with their
> > associated Ext JavaScript component ("Component"). Use of the Assets in
> > any way that does not also include the Component is prohibited without
> > explicit permission from Ext JS, LLC.  Deriving images and CSS from the
> > Assets in an effort to bypass this license is also prohibited.
> > 
> 
> IMO, this is completely unacceptable unless we have a free "assets" set 
> that can replace this.

Hmm, I wonder why shipping uqm-content is acceptable then,
see /usr/share/doc/uqm-0.6.2:

--- 8< ---
    The content -- voiceovers, dialogue, graphics, and music -- are
    copyright (C) 1992, 1993, 2002 Toys for Bob, Inc. or their
    respective creators.  The content may be used freely under the
    terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
    2.5 license (included below, and also available at
    http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/).  The content
    may also be copied freely as part of a distribution of The Ur-Quan
    Masters.
--- >8 ---

I agree that CC-BY-NC-SA is slightly less restrictive than the extjs
assets license above, but where do we (in our licensing guidelines) make
that distinction?

Nils
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