Ricardo Wurmus writes: > Kei Kebreau writes: > >> ng0 writes: >> >>> Kei Kebreau transcribed 1.3K bytes: >>>> ng0 writes: >>>> >>>> > >>>> > Attribution-Noncommericial… doesn't that make them a candidate for >>>> > exclusion in systems like Guix? >>>> > >>>> >>>> Considering that the songs are data files and non-executable, the >>>> software is still free. If the sample songs turn out to be a problem, I >>>> can attempt to remove them in a snippet. >>> >>> It would help if we could document this. I don't think everyone will review >>> upstream material (FSDG and similar) for data files (music, images). >>> I would exclude CC licensed material which says "Noncommercial", but I'm >>> not a lawyer. >> >> It may also cause problems upstream as well. The software is under licenses >> with no commerical restrictions and the sample songs are under a >> noncommericial restriction, but they are shared in one tarball. That >> would constitute a conflict, right? > > If my understanding of the FSDG is correct we cannot distribute these > files. The FSDG says this about non-functional data: > > Non-functional Data > > Data that isn't functional, that doesn't do a practical job, is more > of an adornment to the system's software than a part of it. Thus, we > don't insist on the free license criteria for non-functional > data. It can be included in a free system distribution as long as > its license gives you permission to copy and redistribute, both for > commercial and non-commercial purposes. > > In this case the commercial restriction means that we cannot distribute > it. You can remove these files in a snippet. Could you send an updated > patch please? > > -- > Ricardo > > GPG: BCA6 89B6 3655 3801 C3C6 2150 197A 5888 235F ACAC > https://elephly.net A new patch has been sent.