On Sun, 2005-05-08 at 16:16 -0400, Bruno Barrera C. wrote: > Well, time ago, I contacted them to know if I could include their themes > into the Debian package obviously, and I got answers like: > > From rom Carlos Oliva: > > 'That's fine. Please do. I'll be glad to share my theme into the Debian > Package'
I think that's only good enough for non-free. For main, people must explicitly license it under a DFSG-free license for use outside Debian. For most of these themes I don't think that will be a problem; the authors probably want to allow it, they just don't know the legal details (or don't expect that anyone cares). I think the simplest thing would be to ask them to license it under the MIT license, since it's GPL-compatible and still as simple as possible. I think the background images might present a more severe problem in some cases. Probably in at least in some cases, the style author has used the background image without the permission of the artist. In those cases, I don't think Debian (or the style author!) can continue to distribute the background with the style, unfortunately. > Then I uploaded the package. Now, the true is that I will require all > emails digitally-signed, otherwise it will not be legal because somebody > could think that they are fake. Hm, probably that isn't necessary, though I guess it wouldn't hurt. > I'm going to request the same thing that I've requested time ago, and I > will change the debian/copyright, including his reply on the file. That > do you think that would be correct? As long as you check up on the background images, I think that's correct, yes. If you want, I am willing to do any part of this that you are too busy to or don't want to do -- I don't want to make work for you. :-) > Thanks for your report, No problem. Thanks for your work on the blackbox packages. -- Andrew Moise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
