[dev] non-DFSG compliant licenses used in Ansel

[Mike Gabriel]

Dear upstream developers,

I have just received notice (and did not spot this myself) from  
Debian's ftpmasters, that the files js/lightbox.js and js/slideshow.js  
are licensed under non-DFSG [DFSG] licenses (CC-BY-2.5 and  
CC-BY-SA-2.0).

As those files contain code from other projects, I assume relicensing  
is not an option. The CC >= 3.0 licenses are DFSG compliant.

Alternatively, would it make sense to drop these non-free lightbox.js  
and slideshow.js files and replace them by similar implementations?  
Instead of lightbox.js, we have jquery-colorbox, jquery-fancybox, or  
slimbox.js already available in Debian. Search the web for  
slideshow.js also give various results these days.

For now, I cannot get Ansel back into Debian, if this does not get  
adjusted upstream. Would it help, if I got one of my staff persons to  
work on this? Could someone test, review, approve the proposed code  
changes?

Greets,
Mike



[DFSG] - https://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines

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