Review: OrthCal

[Andrew Mitchell]

On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 07:12:10AM +0530, Bhavani Shankar R wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 4:04 AM, Stéphane Graber <stgraber at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > On 12-09-10 03:53 PM, Allison Randal wrote:
> >> On 09/07/2012 08:19 AM, Bhavani Shankar R wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Great again! I just installed and tested your package
> >>>
> >>> +1 now (Changelog needs to be collapsed to a single entry and prefixed
> >>> with -extras12.04.1 before upload)
> >>
> >> +1 from me too, with these changes.
> >>
> >> Allison
> >
> > W: orthcal: debian-changelog-line-too-long line 1
> >
> >
> > Strong -1 here, this package isn't open source.
> >
> > License: CC-BY-NC-SA-2.0
> > License: CC-BY-NC-3.0
> >
> > The NC in there means Non-Commercial, so these aren't freely
> > redistributable and as such can't enter extras.ubuntu.com
> >
> 
> Agreed. But they can be distributed under the same license IIRC. (I'm
> looking at [1] and [2] here)
> 
> Please correct me if I am wrong.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> [1] http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/legalcode
> 
> [2] http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/

The non-commercial restrictions on distribution is what excludes this class
of licence from being allowed in Debian main or Ubuntu main/universe. Since
we're meant to be following the same licensing policy as main & universe, 
we must exclude files under these licences.

Andrew