On 6 December 2012 13:48, Galen Charlton <gmc@esilibrary.com> wrote:
Hi,
On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 4:40 PM, Adalid Ortiz <adalid@tij.uia.mx> wrote:
See please.... Creative Commons Licence
// Maps v3.1.1 (823.1) // University of Hartford Libraries // // (c) 2012, Written by Brandon J C Fuller (except where noted) // Licenced under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License -- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ // Documentation available at http://libill.hartford.edu/koha/maps
The fact that code is licensed under a CC license is not sufficient, as with the exception of the CC0, no current CC license is compatible with the GPL -- and anything licensed under a CC-NC license is *definitely* not compatible. In order for this code to be distributed with Koha, whoever holds copyright to it, whether it is Brandon Fuller, the University of Hartford, or some other entity, would have to license it under the GPL or order a license that is compatible with the GPL.
Further to that, any license with NC clause is at odds the freedom to use the software as you see fit. Which is Freedom 0, of the 4 software freedoms The freedom to run the program, for any purpose (freedom 0). It also violates clause 5 of the Open Source Definition http://opensource.org/osd-annotated Eric Raymond comments "Note that licenses that allow only noncommercial use do not qualify as open-source licenses, even if they are based on GPL or some other standard license. Such licenses discriminate against particular occupations, persons, and groups, a practice which the OSD's Clause 5 explicitly forbids." Chris