On Wed, 29 May 2013 15:18:42 +0200 Micha Lenk wrote: [...] > The new upstream version 0.0.4.0 ships a new file > images/license_and_sources_of_icons.txt clarifying the license of the used > icon > files.
Dear Micha, I noticed this bug report and I want to comment it (in the hope to help a little). First of all, I would like to explicitly say that I appreciate that you are taking this issue seriously. > Some of the icons are licensed as "Gemeinfrei, nicht-kommerziell" > (public domain, excluding commercial use). This "license statement" is confusing at best, but the intent is clearly to create a non-free permission. Ouch! :-( > This violates DFSG no. 6, which > requires a license to contain no discrimination against fields of endeavor. Agreed. > > I've already contacted upstream about this issue. He intends to replace the > icons as soon as better icons licensed under a free license are available. Good. Two comments: (A) the new file images/license_and_sources_of_icons.txt [1] also states that several icons are "copied from the oxygen theme of kde" and claims that oxygen icons are licensed under CC-by-sa-v3.0; this is incomplete information, actually: as stated in the official oxygen icon website [2], the oxygen icons are dual licensed under CC-by-sa-v3.0 and GNU LGPL (v2.1 or later) [1] I am reading http://source.lenk.info/git/abtransfers.git/blob/6b9b8d7556a9b304de4fc47c4c499a363577ada4:/images/license_and_sources_of_icons.txt [2] http://www.oxygen-icons.org/?page_id=4 (B) since the majority of the icons used by abtransfers come from the KDE oxygen icon set, I wonder if abtransfers upstream developers could ask oxygen icon designers [3] to create a few additional icons (consistent with the oxygen theme and under the same dual-licensing scheme) to represent the concepts currently depicted by the abtransfers non-free icons... [3] http://www.oxygen-icons.org/?page_id=16 > So, > the purpose of this bug report is mainly to not hide the issue, and to track > its progress publically. Thanks for doing so. I hope the issue may be fixed soon. Bye. -- 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
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