Re: Restrictive Artwork License

2013-12-29 Thread Eric Lavarde - Debian
== I'm not sure what my (tablet) mailer did with my initial posting, but you might have got it garbled, hence I apologize and send it again. Eric Hi, I would tend to agree with what Paul wrote but IANAL and you should ask on debian-legal for a more authoritative answer. A few more comments

Re: Restrictive Artwork License

2013-12-29 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 08:01:13PM +0100, Eric Lavarde - Debian wrote: I guess, it means that having the icons in a jar file isn't OK, having them in the file system is OK Jar files are .zip files. Does this mean that you can't have images in the same tarball as a GPL'd program in a tarfile? I

Re: Restrictive Artwork License

2013-12-29 Thread Craig Small
On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 02:19:38PM -0500, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: Even considering code in the same jarfile as linked, I don't think you can link an image to code in the same way. I've seen it before. Takes an image and makes a C file, something like char my_img={ 0x11, 0x22, ... etc} Was evil,

Re: Restrictive Artwork License

2013-12-29 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 02:17:12PM +1100, Craig Small wrote: On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 02:19:38PM -0500, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: Even considering code in the same jarfile as linked, I don't think you can link an image to code in the same way. I've seen it before. Takes an image and makes a C

Restrictive Artwork License

2013-12-28 Thread Felix Natter
Dear mentors, (upstream) Freeplane 1.3.x will have new icons (application icon, document icon), but the artist wants to keep all rights and only grant the Freeplane project all rights of use. -- Is that ok for Debian? -- Is it even compatible with the GPL-2+ license of Freeplane? Thanks and

Re: Restrictive Artwork License

2013-12-28 Thread Gergely Nagy
Felix Natter fnat...@gmx.net writes: (upstream) Freeplane 1.3.x will have new icons (application icon, document icon), but the artist wants to keep all rights and only grant the Freeplane project all rights of use. -- Is that ok for Debian? No, it's not. See DFSG#1, #7, and possibly #8 too.

Re: Restrictive Artwork License

2013-12-28 Thread Vincent Cheng
On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 4:15 PM, Gergely Nagy alger...@balabit.hu wrote: -- Is it even compatible with the GPL-2+ license of Freeplane? It's early in the morning, but my gut feeling is that no, it would not be compatible. Why not? It's not uncommon for an upstream to give their code and

Re: Restrictive Artwork License

2013-12-28 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 07:36:42PM +0100, Felix Natter wrote: (upstream) Freeplane 1.3.x will have new icons (application icon, document icon), but the artist wants to keep all rights and only grant the Freeplane project all rights of use. -- Is that ok for Debian? Not for Debian main, no.

Re: Restrictive Artwork License

2013-12-28 Thread Eric L.
Hi, I would tend to agree with what Paul wrote but IANAL and you should ask on debian-legal for a more authoritative answer. A few more comments below: Paul Tagliamonte paul...@debian.org wrote: On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 07:36:42PM +0100, Felix Natter wrote: (upstream) Freeplane 1.3.x will have