Re: [Fedora-legal-list] CC-BY 2.0 ... but with restrictions?

[Tom Callaway]

On 10/20/2014 12:02 PM, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
>  Hi,
>  I'm trying to package EFF's Privacy Badger Firefox extension, which
>  seems to have a lot of JavaScript and CSS code bundled. One of the
>  bundled scripts is a SHA1 implementation from
>  http://www.webtoolkit.info/javascript-sha1.html .
>  
>  The licence as linked from http://www.webtoolkit.info/license1 seems
>  to be CC-BY 2.0 UK, but the page states some additional restrictions
>  if I'm reading it correctly. Is this free enough for inclusion in Fedora
>  or should I talk to the author about clarifying/relicencing? 
They seem to be adding restrictions to CC-BY that are not in the license
terms, on distribution and commercial use, and those restrictions are
non-free.

~tom

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