Bastian Venthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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)?
I think in order to have artwork in main, you have to trust upstream to properly care about their licensing. So if there's a package that contains 5 or 50 icons for itself, created by the upstream authors' team, I see no problem including it (for example, the icons in GNU Emacs, Gnus, etc.). With a collection of literally thousands of icons, I think it would be really hard. Except maybe if the upstream distributor requires the people who provide artwork to agree to a free licensing before they are allowed to upload. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
