License question

[Paul Howarth]

On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 13:59 +0200, Erwin Rol wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> I don't know what the best Fedora list is to ask this question, because
> on the project website i didn't find a list that really fitted this
> topic.
> 
> A while back i said i was working on a Open-Xchange version that could
> work with GCJ, so that in the end it could be included in Fedora
> (extras). Some parts of Open-Xchange , the HTML, pictures, docu, are
> under a CC license. The "Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5” to be
> exact ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/legalcode )
> Now some Debian people have a problem with this license as described
> here; http://people.debian.org/~evan/ccsummary.html 
> The question is does Fedora accept works that are (or partly are) under
> the mentioned CC license?
> 
> In the case of Open-Xchange we are talking about ~3.5MB of pictures and
> HTML code, which is tightly coupled to java backend code (that is
> GPLed). So rewriting the frontend is just a waste of time and writing a
> new groupware would probably be faster (especially since there still has
> to be done a lot of work to make it compile with GCJ).
> 
> If there is a better place for this question please let me know.

The answer for Fedora would be the same as for Debian - it's a non-free
license (the non-commercial use restriction) and so unsuitable for
inclusion in Fedora as it stands.

You could always write to fedora-legal at redhat.com if you *really* want
confirmation but I'm sure that's the response you'd get.

Paul.