Re: more licensing issues :(

[Gregory John Casamento]

GNUstep has been moved back to GPLv2+ so those licensing issues should be taken 
care of.

I will contact Andrew and see what can be done about this.   

Thank you for pointing this out.

Later, GC

 Gregory Casamento -- Principal Consultant - OLC, Inc 
# GNUstep Chief Maintainer


----- Original Message ----
From: Hubert Chathi <address@hidden>
To: address@hidden
Sent: Friday, June 20, 2008 1:51:51 PM
Subject: more licensing issues :(

Debian Bug #487143 [1] was filed against gnustep-gui, which points out
that some of the included images are licensed in a way that prevents
modification, and also prevents use for anything other than developing
free OpenStep applications.

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/487143

This presents a problem since Debian requires that everything in the
distribution, including images, sounds, data files, documentation, be
freely modifiable, and so this could result in GNUstep being removed
from Debian.

I should note that this license only applies to certain images: namely
the images used for drawing various GUI controls such as checkboxes,
etc.

Is it possible to get these images relicensed?

Thanks

Hubert

P.S. The link listed in the license:
http://www.gnustep.org/UserSuite/UserSuite.html doesn't work.

P.P.S. There are additional reasons that I believe that the current
license is unreasonable.  If anyone is interested, ask me.


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