The icons on KDE-Look seem to be mostly GPL licensed, and as Stefano noted, the GPL isn't compatible with the ASL (Apache Software License).
However, I think a few of the artists would be more than happy to relicense their work to us. The work is still copyright by the original author, so the author has the right to relicense to ASL to us. Furthermore, what artist would turn down the chance to have his work distributed more? Most of the authors are just going to say, "Yeah, you can use my artwork, as long as you put a note in the README saying that these icons were made by me, copyright by me, and provide my email address." That's something we were going to do anyway, so it's not an onerous requirement. I would bet money that 70% of the artists went: "Well, the GPL is the only/best license I know about, so I'll just license the images under that and forget about it." I think the best course of action is to skim through any GPL licensed libraries, pick the ones we like, then email the artist to relicense the code. If any artist doesn't agree, we can always skip to another artist, or even ask another artist to create a similar design. On 6/22/05, Enrique Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Juan Carlos Murillo wrote: > > Sorry, wrong link on last one, here is the right link: > > > > http://www.kde-look.org/index.php?xsortmode=down&page=0 > > > > I've been using the Nuvola icons (from that page), for about a year now > for web apps and I really recommend them. Since they're for an OS, they > really cover everything you'd need. > > They are "LGPL" and I've always been curious (a) what that meant in > relation to graphics and (b) whether they are Apache-kosher. > > Enrique > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
