[ubuntu-art] Licensing issue with Windows application installer on LiveCD

[Corey Burger]

On 3/12/06, Oliver Grawert <ogra at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> hi,
> Am Montag, den 13.03.2006, 00:49 +0100 schrieb Julian Turner:
> > There's one problem, though: The license I chose, CC
> > Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike [2], doesn't permit commercial
> > redistribution.
> ubuntu isnt distributed commercially and will never be ... so dont
> worry, your licensing should be fine :)
>
> ciao
>         oli

Non-commercial is much much more nasty than that. This prevents
anybody from charging any money for the livecd, even to cover
expenses. So yes, non-comm is a major issue. Debian consider
non-commericial to be non-free, as does Wikipedia, for very good
reason.

Corey