Re: [arch-dev-public] Licenses: Is Creative Commons in our list?

On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 1:44 AM, Thayer Williams wrote:

On May 04, 2008 12:17 AM PDT, Dan McGee wrote:

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On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 12:38 AM, Thayer Williams wrote:

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Excuse the naive question, but while putting together some PKGBUILDs for the Arch artwork stuff, I couldn't find any reference to the Creative Commons licenses in /usr/share/licenses. Am I missing something or do we need to add this to our collection?

The Arch Linux logo (and other related artwork) is released under CC license so I want to make sure I flag these properly.

I don't believe it is. I can add it to the package if we have a need for it though. If you could track me down a plain-text copy of it or point me to a link, that would be great.

-Dan

I'll do that...I did discover that a couple of packages (e.g. tango-icon-theme) do use an individual copy of the CC license.

The thing is, there are several versions of this license and each with their own version numbers (2.0, 2.5, etc.) so I can see it being a potential headache. At the same time it's use is becoming mainstream so it might be worthwhile.

Anyone else have any thoughts on this?

I think the different versions are fairly compatible (maybe I'm wrong), but you would have to support all the variations for sure: cc-by, cc-by-nc, cc-by-nd, cc-by-nc-nd, cc-by-sa, cc-by-nc-sa, cc-sampling+, cc-nc-sampling+, etc. I suppose we could just add them as we go. How many have you seen in the wild as of yet? Jason