There was a reply to this message from Debian legal, which never reached us ( see my other mail for reasons an things we could do about that):
http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2005/08/msg00075.html On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 17:29 +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: > On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 05:15:54PM +0200, Henning Sprang wrote: > > On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 16:24 +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: > <snip/> > > > > > > The wiki is at http://faiwiki.informatik.uni-koeln.de > > > > > > > > > IANAL & AFAIK there are about five versions of the Creative Commons > > > License. > > > Some of them are very restricting. e.g. "don't modify my beautiful > > > painting". But a wiki is about allow others to modify ( improve it ) > > > > "creative commons attribution 2.5" is one of these, that one that allows > > absolute freedom apart from the original author must be mentioned. Sorry > > for not posting a link to it and to the faiwiki copyright page, here > > they go: > > > > http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ > > > > http://faiwiki.informatik.uni-koeln.de/index.php/FAIWiki:Copyrights > > | Attribution 2.5 > | > | You are free: > | > | * to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work > | * to make derivative works > | * to make commercial use of the work > | > | Under the following conditions: > | by > | Attribution. You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the > | author or licensor. > | > | * For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the > | * license terms of this work. > | * Any of these conditions can be waived if you get permission from > | * the copyright holder. > | > | Your fair use and other rights are in no way affected by the above. > | > > Sounds reasonable to me. > > > Cheers > Geert Stappers >
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