On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 05:52:22PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 5:30 PM, Mike Hommey <m...@glandium.org> wrote: > > > More than the trademark fair use problem, there is one of a license one: > > Are these logo really free ? (keep in mind that for example, the Firefox > > logo is not, whatever the trademark status is) > > The initial mail in this thread was about CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0 icons, so > no, they're non-free. > > The pidgin-facebookchat icons seem free (GPLv3) though.
Well, that's what they claim, but what is the real status ? A wild guess is that most icons that are present in packages have been picked from the web sites (or equivalent) themselves. These icons are most probably *not* under the license of the surrounding software. For example, I have serious doubts about the freeness of the search engine icons in iceweasel (the ones on the top right of the UI). Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
