Free Software Foundation and Creative Commons
The FSF will endorse GNU/Linux distributions that includ materials released under the CC-BY and CC-BY-SA licenses!
On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 03:47:57AM -0400, Dave via RT wrote:
Hi, A discussion has come up on the Gobuntu mailing list (the ‘fully free’ official variant of Ubuntu) regarding Creative Commons licenses. Obviously the non-commercial licenses are non-free, but the cc-by and cc-by-sa licenses are in the spirit of freedom. Since debian-legal is of the opinion they don’t conform to the DFSG, some in the Gobuntu community believe they are non-free. What is the FSF stance of these licenses in the context of a “fully free” GNU/Linux distribution?
Dave,
We believe they’re free licenses for non-software, and would have no problem endorsing a distribution that included materials released under their terms.
If you have other questions or concerns, please feel free to contact us.
Best regards,
— Brett Smith Licensing Compliance Engineer, Free Software Foundation Please note that I am not an attorney. This is not legal advice.
The Free Software Foundation and Creative Commons by David Crossland, except the quotations and unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.
August 14, 2007 |
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