Hi Michael, I am looking into our options for the license of the images. Stay tuned.
— Timothy Hatcher > On Feb 6, 2016, at 8:23 PM, Michael Catanzaro <mcatanz...@igalia.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > I'd like to address the problem with the license for the web inspector > images. The background on this is that a WebKitGTK+ release was > rejected by the legal department of one of our distributors after it > discovered the file Source/WebInspectorUI/APPLE_IMAGES_LICENSE.rtf, > which covers the images under > Source/WebInspectorUI/UserInterface/Images. From a cursory glance at > the license, it's clear that not only is this license not open source > compatible (and therefore not compatible with the acceptable content > policies of major WebKitGTK+ distributors), the images are also not > distributable. I don't believe this is consistent with the values of > the WebKit open source project. > > In response to this issue, we created similar but freely-licensed > replacement images under > Source/WebInspectorUI/UserInterface/Images/gtk, took down our hosted > tarballs for several previous WebKitGTK+ releases, reissued those > tarballs with the images replaced, and posted a notice to alert some of > our distributors to the issue. This was sufficient for our port, so we > just... stopped at that. But it would be good if other ports did not > have to address this problem individually, especially since there is no > obvious warning when downloading WebKit as to the legal status of this > content. > > Since the images are not usable except by Apple, it would be nice to > remove these images from the public repository to reduce the risk of > other ports accidentally including these image files. Therefore, I > propose to simply overwrite the images under Images with the images > under Images/gtk. As part of this, we would need to create a few new > images that do not currently exist under Images/gtk. Also, Apple's > internal build process would need to be modified to include the Apple > images from elsewhere. > > If I am remembering correctly, I spoke to Joe Pecoraro about this at > the WebKit Contributors Meeting, and he liked this idea. Would anyone > object to this change? > > A couple alternative solutions: > > * Apple could relicense its images. I suspect the set of similar but > freely-licensed gtk images defeats the purpose of using a restrictive > license for the Apple images. This would be the best solution. > Possible? > > * We could move the license file up from WebInspectorImages to the > toplevel project directory. This would make it very difficult to > accidentally distribute the Apple images without knowing the license. > > Michael > _______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org > https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev