Re: Please change the CC-BY-SA 1.0 license

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On Tue, 13 Mar 2018, Nathan Cutler wrote:
> On 03/13/2018 11:20 AM, Shengjing Zhu wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 6:09 PM, Nathan Cutler <ncutler@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > My goal at the time was to bring the license line in the spec file into
> > > closer alignment with what is specified in COPYING. (Not sure how Debian
> > > got
> > > into the picture?)
> > 
> > Debian needs to know the exact license. Without the version of CC
> > license or a copy of the license in repo, we can't know whether it's
> > DFSG free.
> > 
> 
> I believe we have established that the exact doc license is unknown at this
> time, since COPYING does not specify a version. Would it be enough to declare
> in the mailing lists that the doc license version is declared to be, e.g., 3.0
> of CC-BY-SA and that if anyone disagrees they should speak up? (With the
> understanding that, if they do, their stuff will be removed/rewritten.)
> 
> Then it would be a simple matter of fixing the relevant lines in COPYING and
> the packaging.

I think a pull request making the change (with a summary of the history) 
and a message to this list soliciting comments is sufficient to resolve 
the ambiguity.

Thanks!
sage
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