On Thu, 25.09.08 22:45, Luke Yelavich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi all,
Heya! > I have been asked to get the freedesktop sound theme > packaged for Ubuntu, and am wondering about licensing/copyright for > the sounds. I know the README has some information on where the > sounds were taken from, their licenses etc, but I am wondering > whether there are any licenses that I should include in the > package. I believe Debian already has some packaging work towards > this, so will be basing from that, but I want to make sure I have > all bases covered in terms of copyright, attribution etc. s-t-f is mostly based in the old gnome-audio package. If you guys had no problem shipping that license-wise you should be fine with s-t-f as well. The license listing in the README file should be complete. At least to my best knowledge -- I actually spent quite some time contacting everyone to figure out what the licenses of those files were. I didn't merge quite a few often-used audio files which had unclear licensing. So, I do believe that when you acknowledge everything that is written in that README file and are OK with the choice of licenses you should be fine with shipping it in Ubuntu. However, I know that Debian is not OK with CC 2.0 licenses. I have no idea what they did about that -- if they replaced the files or simply dropped them... BTW, my interest in maintaining this package upstream equals zero. Should you guys spend some time on it because CC 2.0 isn't OK for you either you might as well take over maintainership entirely. Also I know that Ubuntu used to ship sound files that deviated from upstream gnome-audio. If you do the same kind of modification for s-t-f then please consider doing it upstream instead of just downstream. (Hey, isn't that the recurring theme of Ubuntu contributions as we just heard gregkh at LPC? ;-)) Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net ICQ# 11060553 http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4 _______________________________________________ libcanberra-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://tango.0pointer.de/mailman/listinfo/libcanberra-discuss
