Review: OrthCal

[Bhavani Shankar R]

On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 6:35 PM, Dimitrios - Georgios Kontopoulos
<dgkontopoulos at member.fsf.org> wrote:
> 2012/9/11 Bhavani Shankar R <bhavi at ubuntu.com>
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 2:22 PM, Dimitrios - Georgios Kontopoulos
>> <dgkontopoulos at member.fsf.org> wrote:
>> > Hello all! I completed the necessary changes and now the new app's logo
>> > and
>> > background are licensed under CC-BY-SA 2.0 and CC-BY 2.0 respectively. I
>> > also changed the details of the application in myapps, including new
>> > logos
>> > and a new screenshot.
>> > Packages are currently built by Launchpad.
>> >
>>
>> Hi Dimitrios,
>>
>> I'm afraid that the cc-by-sa-2.0 and cc-by 2.0 are not dfsg compatible
>> again
>>
>> see http://wiki.debian.org/DFSGLicenses
>>
>> for a list of dfsg compatible licenses.
>>
>> Reserving my vote on this one for now
>
>
> In this case, the majority of the application is not dfsg compatible, since
> the english content of daily feasts is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.5, which is
> also DFSG incompatible. There is not much that can be done -easily at least-
> to fix this then.
>

Sorry if I had sounded a bit harsh. (I also thought initially that
extras repos have bit of a relaxation)

> The main reason I am replying to this is to request that appropriate notice
> be put somewhere (developer.ubuntu.com?), regarding license compatibility
> and DFSG. Had I known that most of these licenses are not allowed to be used
> in ubuntu repositories, I most probably wouldn't have started this project.
>

There is no need to be such disappointed I think.

Dear Team,

How about passing this to the myapps team and getting it uploaded from there?

Or if anyone has better ideas; looking forward to your suggestions on the same.

> Thank you and have a good day.

Thanks a lot for your swift reply!

Regards,

-- 
Bhavani Shankar
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