On Fri, 22 Jul 2016 17:54:27 -0500 Zorian M wrote: > I've sent an email to the author of "Devilish design" to request an > additional CC-BY license [...]
Hello, I stumbled upon this bug report and I feel like commenting on it. I disagree that re-licensing the rendered ogg files would be enough to solve this issue. The Debian Social Contract states, in part: | 1. Debian will remain 100% free | | We provide the guidelines that we use to determine if a work is | "free" in the document entitled "The Debian Free Software | Guidelines". We promise that the Debian system and all its | components will be free according to these guidelines. [...] DFSG#2 requires the availability of source code. Hence, distributing the source-less files under a license that does not require the availability of source would not solve the issue. The Debian Project must distribute the source (for works included in packages in Debian main) anyway, regardless of how permissive is the license. > > On 7/22/16, Guus Sliepen <g...@debian.org> wrote: > > Source: edgar > > Severity: serious > > Justification: source missing for GPL licensed assets > > > > According to debian/copyright, the edgar-data package contains a number > > of songs which are licensed under the GPL-3+. However, only the final > > rendered music is present in the form of a .ogg file. > > > >> Files: > >> music/Battle?in?the?winter.ogg > >> music/Devilish?design.ogg > >> music/A?wintertale_0.ogg > >> music/Medicine.ogg > >> Copyright: Copyright (c) Johan Brodd > >> Comment: http://opengameart.org/users/jobromedia > >> License: GPL-3+ > > > > Upon checking OpenGameArt, I found out that "Battle in the winter" and "A > > winter tale" are dual-licensed, and available under the CC-BY 3.0 and > > CC-BY-SA 3.0 licenses respectively, so it should be a simple matter of > > updating the copyright notice here. As explained above, I don't think that modifying the debian/copyright file would solve the issue for the dual-licensed files. The source for those files must be included in the source package (and the re-generation of the rendered ogg files should be ideally automated and performed at package build time). > > However, "Devilish design" is only > > available under GPL 3.0. As such, I believe that unless the source can > > be found or Johan Brodd can be contacted and asked if the license could > > be changed, this song should be removed from the source package. I am convinced that the source for this song should be distributed as well, regardless of which license is adopted. > > > > Also, Medicine.ogg is, according to OpenGameArt.org, created by > > Alexander Zhelanov, and is licensed only under CC-BY 3.0. If this is again a rendered ogg file generated from a distinct source form, then the source must be included in the Debian source package. What I expressed is my own opinion on the topic, but it is shared by a good number of other people. I hope I explained things clearly enough. Please address this issue in a proper way. Thanks for your time. Bye. -- http://www.inventati.org/frx/ There's not a second to spare! To the laboratory! ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == CA01 1147 9CD2 EFDF FB82 3925 3E1C 27E1 1F69 BFFE
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