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

[Mamoru Tasaka]

(Sorry to Josh that I mail to you directly.. Resending to legal list)

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:
>
>
> ############################################################
> #  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.
>
> You can find these files under
> usr/share/fluxbox/styles/{arch,bloe,bora_black,bora_blue,bora_green,carp,green_tea,ostrich,zimek_*}/theme.cfg
>   As and example, you can find them in this build:
> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=209141
>
> I thought I would raise the issue here and see whether those files
> need to be removed from the Fedora package or not.  The Non Commercial
> clause seems to make them non-free according to the Fedora guidelines.
>
> josh

Well, it seems that with fluxbox 1.3.0 the headers of these files (except
for ostrich) are modified (to show that they are under CC-BY-SA) or
the files are removed.

Regards,
Mamoru