GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 766961
CC BY-NC-SA license is not open source
Last modified: 2021-06-10 11:34:28 UTC
The Cookbook bundled with Clutter is not licensed under an open source (or free software) license. This commit relicensed it as CC-BY-NC-SA 2.0 https://git.gnome.org/browse/clutter/commit/?id=54aa553d0f691268346657fd661450ed9bf8845a That license fails criteria 6 of the Open Source Definition: https://opensource.org/docs/definition.php and the Debian Free Software Guidelines: https://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines Please remove the cookbook from your releases or re-license it under an open source or free software license.
I've already contacted the co-author of the cookbook, but since we were both working at Intel at the time, it's likely we'll have to deal with some official re-licensing. In the meantime, Debian can avoid adding the cookbook to their docs packages, since if conflicts with the Debian guidelines.
GNOME is going to shut down bugzilla.gnome.org in favor of gitlab.gnome.org. As part of that, we are mass-closing older open tickets in bugzilla.gnome.org which have not seen updates for a longer time (resources are unfortunately quite limited so not every ticket can get handled). If you can still reproduce the situation described in this ticket in a recent and supported software version of clutter, then please follow https://wiki.gnome.org/GettingInTouch/BugReportingGuidelines and create a ticket at https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/clutter/-/issues/ Thank you for your understanding and your help.