On 4/18/06, Victor Skovorodnikov <vic_sk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Can the images be licensed for non-commercial purposes while the source > code can be for commercial as that article indicates? After all, it is the > code that would form the basis of my package, not the images You are picking nits. The point is that all the copyrighted material that Fedora distributes must allow for commercial use. Whether that copyrighted material be images or sounds or sourcecode or whatever... the copyright license associated with whatever the Fedora project distributes must allow for commercial use. Distributing "content" such as images or sounds which has the burden of "non-commercial" use restrictions adds just as much complexity to redistribution and is just as limiting for downstream consumers as "sourcecode" with non-commercial usage restrictions. At the end of the day what matters is the downstream consumers ability to use what the Fedora project provides however they as users see fit, while also making sure downstream modifications are made available back to the rest of the Fedora community. Sure, requiring people to "share-alike" with their modification is a burden on usage, but a burden which is counter-balanced by the desire to protect the common interest of the community to have the modified works available just as the original was made available. Non-commercial usage clauses on ANYTHING in the Fedora project codebase is a burden on usage that has no counter-balancing function which protects the common community interests. Non-commericial clauses are arbitrary restrictions that do nothing but protect the potential commercial interests of the original authors at the expense of the potential commercial interest of future community contributors. -jef -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
