Michael, On Saturday, April 19, 2025 11:36:16 AM Mountain Standard Time Michael Cornelison wrote: > I am the author of dkopp. > I do not understand the legal issues involved, but I agree to change > the license, trusting that you know what you are doing. > > I changed the license as follows: > > Upstream-Name: dkopp > > > Upstream-Contact: Michael Cornelison <mkorne...@gmail.com> > > Source: https://kornelix.net > > > > All files copyright: > > Copyright 2007-2024 Michael Cornelison <mkorne...@gmail.com> > > > > All source program files license: > > GNU General Public License 3.0 or later > > https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html > > > > All other data and image files included in the source > > distribution: > > Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike 4.0 > > International https://creativecommons.org/licenses
There was an email earlier in the Debian conversation that suggested CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0, but I think that was a typo and they meant CC-BY- SA-4.0. The difference is whether or not someone can use these images for commercial purposes. One of the purposes of Debian is to create a Linux distribution than can be used and modified by individuals and businesses for both commercial and non-commercial purposes. You can read a little about this philosophy at: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianFreeSoftwareGuidelines > Is the last paragraph even necessary? If you own the copyright for all of these images and can change the licensing, you can choose to license them all under the GPLv3+ just like the code. In my personal opinion for projects where I am an upstream developer, this is the preferred option for images that are used as part of the GUI (which is my understanding about these images from the conversation). If you prefer a different license for the images for some reason, you could license them under a suitable CC license, like the CC-BY-SA-4.0, which is compatible with the GPL. https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html#CC0 > I will make a new release available shortly. > I plan to include a small technical change. Thank you for being so accommodating. We enjoy working with upstream developers to provide the best experience to our users. -- Soren Stoutner so...@debian.org
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