License question

Andy Green andy at warmcat.com
Fri May 5 12:17:34 UTC 2006


Rahul Sundaram wrote:

> Non commercial clauses are unacceptable for inclusion in Fedora Core &
> Extras since they dont meet the packaging guidelines. We cant generalize
> about CC licenses without talking about specific details within the
> licenses in the context of Fedora. I believe that the attribution,
> sharealike, public domain ones are acceptable within Fedora while the
> others are not among the spectrum of creative common licenses . 

I think you maybe mean "not among the spectrum of Free licenses". 
Noncommercial especially is a bit of a potential nightmare because 
'commercial' is not properly defined.  I hope the OP can go the whole 
hog and lose the commercial prohibition.

-Andy
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