tir, 08 08 2006 kl. 10:09 -0400, skrev Paul W. Frields: > On Tue, 2006-08-08 at 09:48 +0200, David Nielsen wrote: > > tir, 08 08 2006 kl. 15:34 +0800, skrev Luya Tshimbalanga: > > > I stumbled on that license by playing with Inkscape. I am wondering if > > > that license is compatible with GPL and can be used for Fedora Project. > > > Here is the page: > > > > > > http://artlibre.org/licence/lal/en/ > > > > According to fsf.org: > > > > Free Art License > > > > This is a free and copyleft license meant for artistic works. It > > permits commercial distribution, but any larger work including > > the copylefted work must be free. Please don't use it for > > software or documentation, since it is incompatible with the GNU > > GPL and with the GNU FDL. > > Just to be clear on this Luya, the operative clause is that the Free > Software Foundation considers this license to be free, and therefore it > may indeed be a good choice. I'll run this by the advisory board to see > if it's a good choice for Fedora artwork. The cautionary statement at > the end simply means that you shouldn't use this license for software or > docs, but it doesn't mean that GPL-licensed software can't live happily > and comfortably next to FAL-licensed artwork. David, thanks for looking > this up. See this is why we all love Red Hat, they provide us with a legal team to give an informed answer rather than these I'm not a lawyer type answers. This is really a great service. Good luck with you endevours Luya. - David _______________________________________________ @xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/
