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Re: more licensing issues :(
From: |
Nicolas Roard |
Subject: |
Re: more licensing issues :( |
Date: |
Sat, 21 Jun 2008 14:37:08 +0100 |
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 11:40 PM, Gregory John Casamento
<address@hidden> wrote:
> 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?
Maybe we could replace those icons by jesse's icons ?..
--
Nicolas Roard
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