homebank (license issue)

2007-08-16 Thread Francesco Namuri 
Hi mentors,
I've received from the author of homebank a pre-release version 3.4 of
homebank with new SVG icons released under GPL, I have a doubt regarding
one of these icons, it is released with this license metadata:

  cc:License
 rdf:about=http://web.resource.org/cc/PublicDomain;
cc:permits
   rdf:resource=http://web.resource.org/cc/Reproduction; /
cc:permits
   rdf:resource=http://web.resource.org/cc/Distribution; /
cc:permits
   rdf:resource=http://web.resource.org/cc/DerivativeWorks; /
  /cc:License

It's ok for debian?

cheers,
francesco

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Re: homebank (license issue)

2007-08-16 Thread Matthew Palmer 
On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 02:42:19PM +0200, Francesco Namuri wrote:
 Hi mentors,
 I've received from the author of homebank a pre-release version 3.4 of
 homebank with new SVG icons released under GPL, I have a doubt regarding
 one of these icons, it is released with this license metadata:
 
   cc:License
  rdf:about=http://web.resource.org/cc/PublicDomain;
[...]
 It's ok for debian?

While the concept of Public Domain is fine for Debian, I'm a little
concerned about the execution.  This doesn't seem like a proper licence
grant, like the GPL boilerplate, and hence might not be considered to be
sufficiently clear for Debian to take the risk on.  I'd check with d-legal,
and perhaps try and get a clearer licence statement out of upstream.

- Matt


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