On 4/27/06, Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Some artists unhappy with the wording of the (L)GPL are looking for free > art licenses, with or without copyleft. What would your recommendations > for such licenses be? The BSD or Artistic licenses look fine for the > latter case, but how about the former?
There is a license called the Free Art license, I don't know if that is DFSG-free. Also be aware that the FSF doesn't approve of Artistic version 1. andrew > -- > .''`. Josselin Mouette /\./\ > : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > `. `' [EMAIL PROTECTED] > `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Thomas Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 21:00:01 +0100 > Subject: Re: gnome-themes and licensing > Josselin Mouette wrote: > > Le samedi 15 avril 2006 à 13:16 +0100, Thomas Wood a écrit : > >> Personally, I think it's understandable that artists may choose not to > >> distribute their work under the (L)GPL, which is primarily a license for > >> software. As long as the license they choose upholds the values of Free > >> Software, I don't see it as a problem. However, I know there have been > >> various lengthy discussions elsewhere about the status of the Creative > >> Commons licenses, so I would like to have some advice before continuing. > > > > I think I would ask those people to wait for the 3.0 version of the > > Creative Commons licenses, which promise to solve a number of small > > issues[1] that were raised with 2.0 and which are still present in 2.5. > > Do you happen to know if there is any time scale for 3.0? I'd really > like to get started on revamping gnome-themes, but I can't do it unless > I can distribute the themes under a more appropriate license. If it's > likely that a 3.0 CC license is not going to be available before 2.16, > are there any other licenses that might be suitable to meet the needs of > artists and distributors such as Debian? > > -Thomas > > > -- Andrew Donnellan http://andrewdonnellan.com http://ajdlinux.blogspot.com Jabber - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------- Member of Linux Australia - http://linux.org.au Debian user - http://debian.org Get free rewards - http://ezyrewards.com/?id=23484 OpenNIC user - http://www.opennic.unrated.net
