On Sat, Apr 19, 2025 at 08:36:16PM +0200, Michael Cornelison wrote: > I am the author of dkopp. > I do not understand the legal issues involved, but I agree to change the > license, trusting that you know what you are doing. > > I changed the license as follows: > > Upstream-Name: dkopp > > Upstream-Contact: Michael Cornelison <mkorne...@gmail.com> > > Source: https://kornelix.net > > > > All files copyright: > > Copyright 2007-2024 Michael Cornelison <mkorne...@gmail.com> > > > > All source program files license: > > GNU General Public License 3.0 or later > > https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html > > > > All other data and image files included in the source distribution: > > Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike 4.0 International > > https://creativecommons.org/licenses > >
Hi Michael, The issue is that restrictions on redistribution can be difficult under the Debian Free Software Guidelines: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianFreeSoftwareGuidelines so you were asked to change the licence to allow commercial use but with source attribution as far as I read the above. It looks as if you've done that, above. For anyone else reading this who is unsure: As the originator, you are, of course, free to put out software under any licence that you choose but restrictions that you impose may make the software not distributable by others apart from you and, especially, not by Debian under Debian guidelines. All the very best, as ever, Andrew Cater (amaca...@debian.org) > Is the last paragraph even necessary? > > I will make a new release available shortly. > I plan to include a small technical change. > > regards > Mike Cornelison > > > > > On Sat, Apr 19, 2025 at 2:49 PM <atzli...@debian.org> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > 在 2025/4/19 17:06, Sven Geuer 写道: > > > Hi, > > > > > > On Sat, 2025-04-19 at 13:57 +0800, xiao sheng wen(肖盛文) wrote: > > >> Hi, > > >> > > >> Please CC to me. > > >> > > >> I'm doing ITA dkopp #987089 [1], when I update to new upstream > > >> version upstream/8.1, > > >> I find copyright has some changes: > > >> > > >> > > https://salsa.debian.org/debian/dkopp/-/blob/master/doc/copyright?ref_type=heads#L12 > > >> > > >> It say: > > >> > > >> All other data and image files included in the source distribution: > > >> Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike 3.0 Unported > > >> https://creativecommons.org/licenses > > >> > > >> CC-BY-NC-SA-3.0 is not obey DFSG[2], right? > > > > > > Right. See https://wiki.debian.org/DFSGLicenses and especially > > > https://wiki.debian.org/DFSGLicenses#Licenses_that_are_DFSG-incompatible > > Yes. > > >> > > >> This software is a GUI, if not pictures included, it will not use. > > >> > > >> Suggestions is welcome! > > > > > > Reach out to upstream, explain the situation to them, and suggest they > > > switch from CC-BY-NC-SA-3.0 to CC-BY-SA-3.0 or CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0. > > > > > > Sven > > Thanks your suggestions, I'll try it. > > > > > > > > -- > > 肖盛文 xiao sheng wen -- Debian Developer(atzlinux) > > Debian QA page: > > https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=atzlinux%40debian.org > > Debian salsa: https://salsa.debian.org/atzlinux-guest > > GnuPG Public Key: 0x00186602339240CB > > > > > -- > Mike > kornelix.net open source Linux apps > substack <https://michaelcornelison.substack.com/> essays
