license of files in the 2205 release -- CC BY 4.0 not mentioned anywhere?
2022-09-25, 10:03 (This post was last modified: 2022-09-26, 8:23 by Johannes Schauer.)
2022-09-25, 10:03 (This post was last modified: 2022-09-26, 8:23 by Johannes Schauer.)
Hi,
I'm the Debian maintainer of ldraw-parts: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/ldraw-parts
I saw the new Contributor's agreement moving to CC BY 4.0 which is great for Debian because the legal problems of CC BY 2.0 made ldraw-parts "non-free" as far as the Debian free software guidelines are concerned. The CC BY 4.0 license doesn't have these problems and this would mean that ldraw-parts could be included into Debian "main" instead of "non-free".
Unfortunately, as of release 2205, I do not see any mentioning of the new license in the release zip. Instead, both CAlicense.txt as well as CAreadme.txt and all "!LICENSE" headers refer to "CCAL version 2.0".
https://www.ldraw.org/legal-info also still refers to CC BY 2.0.
Will this change in a future release?
I'm the Debian maintainer of ldraw-parts: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/ldraw-parts
I saw the new Contributor's agreement moving to CC BY 4.0 which is great for Debian because the legal problems of CC BY 2.0 made ldraw-parts "non-free" as far as the Debian free software guidelines are concerned. The CC BY 4.0 license doesn't have these problems and this would mean that ldraw-parts could be included into Debian "main" instead of "non-free".
Unfortunately, as of release 2205, I do not see any mentioning of the new license in the release zip. Instead, both CAlicense.txt as well as CAreadme.txt and all "!LICENSE" headers refer to "CCAL version 2.0".
https://www.ldraw.org/legal-info also still refers to CC BY 2.0.
Will this change in a future release?