License question

[Nicu Buculei]

Erwin Rol wrote:
> 
> A while back i said i was working on a Open-Xchange version that could
> work with GCJ, so that in the end it could be included in Fedora
> (extras). Some parts of Open-Xchange , the HTML, pictures, docu, are
> under a CC license. The "Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5” to be
> exact ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/legalcode )
> Now some Debian people have a problem with this license as described
> here; http://people.debian.org/~evan/ccsummary.html 
> The question is does Fedora accept works that are (or partly are) under
> the mentioned CC license?

In my understanding, the "NonCommercial" part is a show stopper.

> In the case of Open-Xchange we are talking about ~3.5MB of pictures and
> HTML code, which is tightly coupled to java backend code (that is
> GPLed). So rewriting the frontend is just a waste of time and writing a
> new groupware would probably be faster (especially since there still has
> to be done a lot of work to make it compile with GCJ).

How about replacing this part with something under an acceptable 
license? The pictures consist of what? icons?

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nicu
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