On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 7:34 AM, Wouter Verhelst <wou...@debian.org> wrote:
> On 13-09-13 22:18, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 10:46:38PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > >> Dear FTP team, > >> > >> I found #675435 where it was written that CC-BY-SA-2.0 was not suitable > >> for Debian, and now I am confused. > >> > >> Could you let us know your position on the possiblity to accept > CC-BY-SA-2.0 by > >> upgrading it to 3.0 through its clause 4b ? > > > > I missed this thread until I stumbled on a bug. > > > > 4b applies to derivative works only. Underscores mine. > > I'm not sure what the problem is. > > Yes, 4b allows you to "distribute, publicly display," etc, only > derivative works, but that's because the whole of section 4 only applies > to derivative works (i.e., section four exists simply because it's a -SA > license). > > Section 3, however, does seem to allow to "distribute and publicly > perform the work". > Am I missing something? > Perhaps; you can distribute this under the terms of the license, which is CC-BY-SA < 3, the point of this was to use 4b to upgrade 2.0 to 3.0. > > -- > This end should point toward the ground if you want to go to space. > > If it starts pointing toward space you are having a bad problem and you > will not go to space today. > > -- http://xkcd.com/1133/ > > Cheers, T -- :wq
