-=| Gabor Szabo, Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 03:32:30PM +0200 |=- > On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 3:17 PM, Damyan Ivanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Another thing left to do is sync debian/copyright with the new > > release. There are more files added, even some Tango icons with some > > CC license. Any ...uhm... takers? :) > > We will deal with the copyright again soon.
(/me hates legal stiff) From what I see, the tango icons are taken from the Tango project. From the tarball I downloaded from tango.freedesktop.org, the license is CC-SA-2.5. One problem with it is that it is not compatible with GPL (AIUI, because it poses additional restrictions). Another -- that CC-SA requires that derivative works include the full license text as well as the list of authors. This is something Padre does not. More[1], it fails the Debian Free Software Guidelines[2], therefore cannot be part of Debian. (There is Debian package named tango-icon-themes in non-free). [1] http://evan.prodromou.name/Debian_Creative_Commons_Workgroup_report [2] http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines So, as I see it: * Padre is not distributable, as GPL and CC-SA-2.5 conflict[3]; * Padre is breaking CC-SA-2.5 by not distributing the full license text and authors list; * Debian cannot ship Padre with CC-SA-2.5-licensed material in it. [3] I am not sure how CC-SA-2.5 interoperates with Artistic license Is chosing another icon set an option? -- dam JabberID: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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