Hi, today I received two bugreports regarding non-free artwork in my packages. I maintain several iconsets with thousands of icons. I think it is quite impossible to check every single icon whether it is free or not.
Most icons don't contain a copyright string, so grepping for certain keywords is not practical or will at least not show every possible violation. I'm currently aware of icons like the firefox- or the ubuntu-icon. Probably other brands like suse, redhad (the Debian-logo?) etc are affected too. But again, this is very likely only a subset of all possible violations in my packages, so checking for violations I'm aware of (and removing those icons in the dfsg-version) will probably not uncover all violations. How can I make sure that my packages are really clean? Is there a best-practice solution for situations like this? Should artwork be generally considered non-free to avoid violations (even when it contains free stuff)? Cheers, Bastian -- Bastian Venthur http://venthur.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
