CC-BY-SA in Fedora

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Fri Jan 5 17:24:05 UTC 2007


David Zeuthen wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> It appears that tango-icon-themes in Extras 
> 
>  http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/development/i386/repodata/repoview/tango-icon-theme-0-0.7.2-5.fc6.html
>  
> is licensed under the CC-BY-SA-2.5 license
> 
>  http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/
> 
> According to
> 
>  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#head-76294f12c6b481792eb001ba9763d95e2792e825
> 
> CC-BY-SA-2.5 appears NOT to be a valid license. So either 
> 
>  1) the Packaging Guidelines needs to be fixed up;
> 
>  2) I'm not reading them right (in that case apologies for the noise);
> 
>  3) something else needs to happen
> 
> I'm writing this mail because I'm interested in CC-BY-SA-2.0 or later
> being a valid license for Fedora but right now it doesn't appear that
> way. Thanks

I think it is 2). Since you are talking about themes do look at 
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#head-daa717ea096fa4d9cf7b9a49b5edb36e3bda3aac

Rahul




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