From kde-artists  Fri Oct 22 07:34:25 2004
From: Ante Wessels <vitanova2 () softhome ! net>
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 07:34:25 +0000
To: kde-artists
Subject: Re: K-ARTIST: License for locolor / kdeclassic icon themes
Message-Id: <200410220934.25932.vitanova2 () softhome ! net>
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On Thursday 21 October 2004 18:17, Jonathan Riddell wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 12:43:14PM +0200, Ante Wessels wrote:
> > On Tuesday 19 October 2004 11:26, Jonathan Riddell wrote:
> > > Yes, it means you can modify and redistribute them.  I suggest adding
> > > a clarification to make this explicit.  Could you can suggest a wording
> > > for this Ben?
> >
> > Something like this would do, I guess:
> >
> >  The images inside this directory are COMPLETELY FREE for commercial and
> > non-commercial use, you can copy, modify and redistribute them.
> >
> > Like I said before (years ago, and let's not start it all over) it is a
> > very weak license, even lacking a disclaimer... With a licence like this,
> > KDE can not port back icons after modification if they are relicensed
> > under an other license.
>
> I've added that clarification.

OK.

>
> It would make sense to have them under the same LGPL licence as the
> crystal icons.  Is there a reason why they arn't?

The short license was written by Torsten. He didn't like chancing the license. 
He did agree with Everaldo to use the LGPL with add-on, which I proposed, for 
the Crystal icons.

vriendelijke groet,
cordialemente,

Ante

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