From kde-artists  Thu Jan 15 17:27:17 2004
From: Ante Wessels <vitanova2 () softhome ! net>
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 17:27:17 +0000
To: kde-artists
Subject: Re: Everaldo keeping kde in lock -- was: K-ARTIST: Icons,
Message-Id: <200401151827.17495.vitanova2 () softhome ! net>
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On Jueves 15 Enero 2004 14:49, Dominique Devriese wrote:
> Ante Wessels writes:
> > On Miércoles 14 Enero 2004 11:40, Dominique Devriese wrote:
> >> Frans Englich writes:
> >> > And if neither that works out, we could send a mail to Everaldo,
> >> > something like the attached perhaps.
> >>
> >> Maybe it would be worth mentionning that it is illegal to
> >> distribute the icons under the GPL or LGPL without distributing the
> >> svg "sources" along.
> >
> > Which is true if you take sources from others, not if it is your own
> > work.
>
> Where do you get that weird idea from ?  The GPL does not make any
> difference between whether it is the original author distributing
> anything, or someone else.  

As long as the file did not leave Everaldo's pc, it is not distributed, it is 
not labeled with a license. So, there is no lgpl in action. You can quote 
from the text if you like, but the text "does not exist" - in this case.

Your approach is counterproductive. Everaldo used to be on this list. It is 
clear he wants his work to be open sourced. So, if he does not provide 
sources, it probably is because he already sent them to suse, the ones he 
had. What Torsten wrote is probably the real story: illustrator sources that 
couldn't be saved as svgs...

So, let's not use lawer's talk, but write a friendly letter to Everaldo asking 
for the .ai files. 

>Even if so, this would still make it
> illegal for anyone but Everaldo to distribute KDE.
>
> Sorry for being so annoying about this, but I do think this is a
> pretty significant problem.
>
> cheers
> domi

-- 

Cordialemente,

Ante



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