Follow-up Comment #7, task #16593 (group administration):
> > In README.md, the passage on the files in textures/ is quite confusing:
one
> note says that it's CC BY-SA 4.0, while another note says that the only two
> files that are present there are under the Expat license. By the way, CC
> BY-SA 4.0 isn't AGPL-compatible as far as I understand; I wonder if you can
> find a better combination of licenses.
>
> In README.md, I meant that the texture files are licensed under
CC-BY-SA-4.0,
> while they're based on the NodeCore project, which is licensed under Expat.
I
> changed up the text a bit to make it a bit clearer.
> Speaking of changing text, you may be right about the CC-BY-SA-4.0
> incompatibility, so I changed the licensing too and now the whole program is
> under the AGPL-3.0-or-later, since the license can also apply to media (I
> added a short clarification about media counting as "source code" in the
> README too)
I see, thank you. Still the note doesn't seem sufficiently clear to me.
First, the phrase "All files (except COPYING) in this project are licensed
under the AGPL-3.0-or-later," is redundant because the files already should
contain legal notices, and isn't future-proof because it will become wrong
when a user adds any file under a different license.
Then, I suggest moving the notes about those two PNG files to a README file in
the textures directory; that file should explain that the original license was
Expat (and show it), and that currently the modified files are under the new
licensing terms; that new license notice should have the consistent form
recommended in the GPL HowTo (you shouldn't assume that the user will
understand abbreviations like 'AGPLv3+', they are only appropriate in informal
contexts). At last, that README should include a copyright notice for those
modified files.
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