Hi Justin, I was doing my research.
See https://github.com/google/material-design-lite/blob/mdl-1.x/README.md Google has relicensed as AL 2. See the bottom. Regards, Dave Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 8, 2018, at 11:10 PM, Justin Mclean <jus...@classsoftware.com> wrote: > > Hi, > >> Those files come from here [1] >> >> [1] https://getmdl.io/templates/index.html > > Thanks, do you know how they are licensed? > > I can see there’s an open issue reguarding licensing of these files. [1] The > original check in doesn’t help much [2] other than the icons seem to be under > an CCSA 4.0 international license. Have we altered the icons in any way? > > Doing a reverse google image search on the road image [5] (which looks like a > professional stock photo to me) turns up a number if hits, but I would guess > it may of come from here [4] as that is one of the hits that predates the > original checkin. There it’s stated that the image is CC0 but it doesn’t give > the author and it’s unknown who uploaded it. (The free photos account seems > to be a catch all). So best case it seems it may be CC0 but it probably is of > unknown IP provenance. Note that it appears in several paid commercial > themes, I’ve not checked them all but the few I did see to come after that > checkin so they may of copied it from there. Can anyone find out anything > else about any of that (or others) images origins? > > I’ve not investigated the other images. > > To resolve we could: > a) Found out where each image come form and what license it’s under. > b) We may need to ask Alexander Surma (su...@surmair.de) who checked in the > images where they where obtained from and what license they were under. (And > if it was [4] ask pixabay where they got it from.) > c) Ask for that issue [1] to be resolved (and give provenance for each image). > d) Replace the images and icons with something of known IP provenance. > > What do you think? To me d) seems the simplest and quickest option and would > require no changes to the existing LICENSE. > > Thanks. > Justin > > 1. https://github.com/google/material-design-lite/issues/4857 > 2. > https://github.com/google/material-design-lite/commit/2cab1e730699b1a650c4f74300939f9d66b16128#diff-f8c098de9d518711322490fec27fcd27 > 3. > https://github.com/google/material-design-lite/blob/2cab1e730699b1a650c4f74300939f9d66b16128/templates/fonts/LICENSE.txt > 4. https://pixabay.com/en/person-male-man-looking-sitting-677770/ > 5. > https://github.com/apache/royale-asjs/blob/develop/examples/royale/MDLBlogExample/src/main/resources/images/road_big.jpg
