FYI, thought this was interesting. ~m -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tango-artists] Re: Tango icons licensing Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 10:21:10 +0200 From: Morten Omholt Alver <mortenalver@xxxxxxxxx> To: tango-artists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx References: <8a363cdc0607250949k27c34a77h8d50ed50c036e87d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Hi, I can now give an answer to my own question (quoted below), just in case it could be of interest here. I sent an e-mail to the FSF as well as this mailing list, and have now received an answer confirming that artwork is no different from libraries in relation to the GPL. Thus, it is not possible for a GPL application to be distributed with artwork licensed (only) under this Creative Commons license. That settles the matter for my part - I have to look for icons elsewhere. Regards, Morten O. Alver On 25/07/06, Morten Omholt Alver <mortenalver@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi, I have a question about licensing of the Tango icon set. As stated on the web page, the icons are licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license. According to the Free Software Foundation, this license is not compatible with the GPL, but it is not clear to me whether this incompatibility causes problems when the CC license is applied to artwork only. I am interested in using the Tango icons for an application which is GPL licensed. Is is possible to distribute and use the icons with this application, even though the GPL cannot be applied to the icons? If not, I would be puzzled by the choice of the CC license for Tango, since the web page specifically mentions the creation of themes for GPL environments like KDE and Gnome. I have found it difficult to track down an answer to this question, so I'm asking this mailing list in the hope that someone here has considered this issue. Regards, Morten O. Alver
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