[Fedora-legal-list] fluxbox has CC-BY-NC-SA files

[Mamoru Tasaka]

Josh Boyer wrote, at 02/26/2011 05:14 AM +9:00:
> Looking at fluxbox I noticed that almost all of it's theme.cfg files
> are licensed under CC-BY-NC-SA according to the headers:

CC-BY-NC-SA is already listed explicitly as "not okay for Fedora"
license:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing#Bad_Licenses_3
  
> ############################################################
> #  This work is licensed under the Creative Commons        #
> #  Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License.       #
> #  To view a copy of this license, visit                   #
> #  http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/          #
> #  or send a letter to Creative Commons,                   #
> #  559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, California 94305, USA. #
> ############################################################
>
> Interestingly enough they point to the URL for the CC license that
> doesn't have the Non-Commercial clause.

Anyway this header is confusing so the maintainer would have to
contact fluxbox upstream about this.

Regards,
Mamoru