Creative Commons licenses to be DFSG-free

Licenses for Free Media and Free Software must be compatible for people to be able to develop and distribute hybrid works. Increasingly, software contains media components like video splash screens and photo interfaces. Similarly, new media works have interactive components with increasingly complex scripts, and artists are benefiting from sharing source code.

According to this debian-legal article, Debian is working with Creative Commons on drafting DFSG-free licenses. This will allow Debian to distribute CC licensed works, but will also allow more interplay between the Free Software and Free Media communities.

Some of the social and business models that have developed around the Free Software community will be adapted to Free Media. For that to happen, it needs to be legally possible to put both Free Software and Free Media on the same CD and ship it, and currently that is not possible.

This issue was discussed at Sydney DebSIG in July, What can Free Software teach Free Media?.