On Sat, 15 Jun 2013 19:55:26 +0200 Micha Lenk wrote: [...] > Hi,
Hello, > > Patrick Wacker, the upstream author of ABtransfers, replaced the > non-free icons with new ones with a free license in upstream [1]SVN > revision 471. This changeset should make ABtransfers DFSG compliant, so > that the next upstream release is expected to have this bug fixed. > > [1] http://schmufu.dyndns.org/trac/abtransfers/changeset/471 By taking a look at the cited changeset, I see that most icons are now acknowledged to be licensed under the GNU LGPL (even though the version is not clearly indicated, which, under the (L)GPL rules, means "any version", which does not seem to be consistent with what you say below, where you state that oxygen theme icons are now under GNU LGPL v3 only). There are even a few icons under CC-by-v3.0: Debian FTP Masters think this is an acceptable license for Debian main (although I disagree with them). Finally there seems to be one icon which is declared as "License: Free". It's not clear to me what this should mean. It's definitely vague: which permissions are granted on this icon? What am I allowed to do with it? What am I *not* allowed to do with it? > > Am 29.05.2013 22:17, schrieb Francesco Poli: > > Two comments: > > > > (A) the new file images/license_and_sources_of_icons.txt [1] also > > states that several icons are "copied from the oxygen theme of kde" and > > claims that oxygen icons are licensed under CC-by-sa-v3.0; this is > > incomplete information, actually: as stated in the official oxygen icon > > website [2], the oxygen icons are dual licensed under CC-by-sa-v3.0 and > > GNU LGPL (v2.1 or later) > > As I learned just recently from Patrick, the available information about > the oxygen icons is contradicting. In January 2008 the license was > changed to LGPL-3 only in the [2]KDE repository, whereas the official > website still claims it is dual licensed -- as you mentioned already. > Patrick mentioned also that he found some hints on the web that the > official website is out of date, and that the icons are no longer dual > licensed. > > [2] http://www.oxygen-icons.org/?page_id=4 Thanks a lot for this information; I was not aware of this re-licensing. > > Anyways, thanks for your hint. I appreciate it a lot. I, in my turn, appreciate your feedback. -- http://www.inventati.org/frx/frx-gpg-key-transition-2010.txt New GnuPG key, see the transition document! ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == CA01 1147 9CD2 EFDF FB82 3925 3E1C 27E1 1F69 BFFE
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