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

[Thayer Williams]

On May 04, 2008 12:17 AM PDT, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 12:38 AM, Thayer Williams <thayer at archlinux.org> wrote:
> > 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?

Thayer