On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 13:59 +0200, Erwin Rol wrote: > Hey all, > > I don't know what the best Fedora list is to ask this question, because > on the project website i didn't find a list that really fitted this > topic. > > A while back i said i was working on a Open-Xchange version that could > work with GCJ, so that in the end it could be included in Fedora > (extras). Some parts of Open-Xchange , the HTML, pictures, docu, are > under a CC license. The "Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5” to be > exact ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/legalcode ) > Now some Debian people have a problem with this license as described > here; http://people.debian.org/~evan/ccsummary.html > The question is does Fedora accept works that are (or partly are) under > the mentioned CC license? > > In the case of Open-Xchange we are talking about ~3.5MB of pictures and > HTML code, which is tightly coupled to java backend code (that is > GPLed). So rewriting the frontend is just a waste of time and writing a > new groupware would probably be faster (especially since there still has > to be done a lot of work to make it compile with GCJ). > > If there is a better place for this question please let me know. The answer for Fedora would be the same as for Debian - it's a non-free license (the non-commercial use restriction) and so unsuitable for inclusion in Fedora as it stands. You could always write to fedora-legal@xxxxxxxxxx if you *really* want confirmation but I'm sure that's the response you'd get. Paul. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
