On 28/05/2021 Dave Fisher wrote:
https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=119096
If the concern is a GPL build tool that we do not distribute (that is allowed)
and what we distribute is PD w/ a Notice request then I don’t see any issue.
The concern, by reading comment 3 in the issue,
https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=119096#c3
was about the license of the SVG files themselves.
And indeed anyone can check the commits in the issue and open, e.g.,
https://svn.apache.org/viewvc/incubator/ooo/trunk/main/ooo_custom_images/tango/res/lx03216.svg?revision=1162288&view=co&pathrev=1302866
and then the source to see the GPL reference mentioned by Herbert (hdu)
in the issue:
<cc:license rdf:resource="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/GPL/2.0/"; />
Now, it could be that icons were relicensed after they became part of
OpenOffice. While Wikipedia is definitely not a trusted source, it talks
about a public domain relicensing in 2009 due to the original terms
being too restrictive.
I tried opening an SVG from
http://tango.freedesktop.org/releases/tango-icon-theme-0.8.90.tar.gz
and indeed I can't see the GPL reference in the SVG any longer.
In short, a possible explanation should be: we were carrying GPL icons
and deleted them due to license incompatibility, but in the meantime,
and independently, those icons had been relicensed to avoid excessive
restrictions; so they might be allowed now, even though we may want to
find something nicer than Tango.
Regards,
Andrea.
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