Le 24 juin 2012 à 14:34, Francesco Poli a écrit : > On Sun, 24 Jun 2012 07:34:50 -0400 Paul Tagliamonte wrote: > >> On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 11:13:31AM +0200, Francesco Poli (wintermute) wrote: > [...] >>> >>> First of all, these debian/copyright paragraphs fail to acknowledge that >>> the Joy theme is based on the Debian “Open Use” (without “Debian” word) >>> logo. But this may be fixed easily. >> >> ACK'd. I'll fix this tonight. Thank you! > > You're welcome! > >> >>> >>> >>> The major issue seems to be that the Joy plymouth theme mixes parts >>> released under CC-by-sa-v3.0 and parts released under GPLv2+. >>> Since CC-by-sa-v3.0 is incompatible with GPLv2+, I would say that the >>> resulting work is legally undistributable. >> >> This *might* be true if it was two bits of code that get linked >> together, but since Plymouth (and the plugin, which is GPLv2) only >> render the CC-BY-SA 3.0 work, it should be fine. > > Well, if what you mean is that a GPL-licensed program loads a > CC-licensed image (as input data) and renders it on the screen, then it > seems that the license incompatibility is irrelevant. > > Sorry for the misunderstanding, but the debian/copyright file is not > very clear on this. > Hence, please, at least, clarify the debian/copyright file. > >> >> I'll CC debian-leagl for comment > > OK, I am keeping debian-legal copied. > > [...] >> In this case, I'll modify this line to show the files that I edited are >> still GPLv2, and the images it's self is CC-BY-SA 3.0. No problem, no >> big deal. > > Yes, please: as I said above, a clarification is needed. > > [...] >> >>> >>> Since everything else in the desktop-base package is GPL-compatible, >>> I strongly recommend to persuade Adrien Aubourg and Paul Tagliamonte >> >> I'm fine with whatever license comes up. I just wanted to keep >> consistancy. >> >>> to re-license their work under the terms of the GNU GPL v2 or later. >>> Or, at least, to dual-license it under CC-by-sa-v3.0 and GPLv2+. >>> (In the latter case, the complete text of CC-by-sa-v3.0 should be >>> included in the debian/copyright file, though.) > > My recommendation is very much related to consistency. > Since rest of the package is all GPL-compatible, it would be really > great if this new theme were GPL-compatible as well. > > Hence, I *still* recommend you to persuade Adrien Aubourg to re-license > (or dual-license) under GPLv2+ ! > I really hope this may be achieved.
No need to convince me. Of course I'll re-license my work to GPL. I realised I made a mistake by licensing the work to CC. I'll change the Joy wiki page to indicate the licensed, and repost my works on debianart changing the license. Adrien Aubourg > > > -- > http://www.inventati.org/frx/frx-gpg-key-transition-2010.txt > New GnuPG key, see the transition document! > ..................................................... Francesco Poli . > GnuPG key fpr == CA01 1147 9CD2 EFDF FB82 3925 3E1C 27E1 1F69 BFFE -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
