Is CC-BY-SA 2.0 acceptable?

[Peter Pentchev]

Hi,

I'm the prospective maintainer of s5, a very simple HTML/CSS/JavaScript
presentation system, as witnessed by ITP #484485 and a sample package at
http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/s/s5/s5_1.1-1.dsc

Most of S5 is explicitly released into the public domain.  However, there
is a single file in a not-quite-essential part of the source tree that
has a CC BY-SA 2.0 license notice.  ISTR that a while ago there were
some discussions about some of the CC licenses not being quite free;
what is the current status of the CC BY-SA version 2.0 license?
I cannot find it in the list of licenses on the new copyright format page,
http://wiki.debian.org/Proposals/CopyrightFormat - is this simply
because no one has bothered to add it, or because it is actively
frowned upon?

The way I see it, there are two courses open to me now:
- just list the file and its license in debian/copyright;
- do a DFSG-repackaging of the source tree, removing the theme that
  contains this file, thus forfeiting a minor non-essential part of
  the S5 functionality.

Which of these would be more suited to The Debian Way?  Of course,
in both cases I will contact Eric Meyer, the upstream author, for some
clarification and possible dropping this license in future releases,
actually making the whole of S5 public-domain, as the docs say :)

G'luck,
Peter

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[Miriam Ruiz-4]

AFAIK, CC-by-sa 2.0 is NOT DFSG-Free

CC-by-sa 3.0 is DFSG-free anyway. Would it be possible to convince
upstream to relicense it under this newer version?

Greetings,
Miry


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