From kde-core-devel  Tue Oct 24 09:44:27 2006
From: Kevin Krammer <kevin.krammer () gmx ! at>
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 09:44:27 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: [Fwd: Licensing Policy for non-code?]
Message-Id: <200610241144.32224.kevin.krammer () gmx ! at>
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On Tuesday 24 October 2006 03:57, Clarence Dang wrote:
> On Wednesday 18 October 2006 00:40, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > On Monday 16 October 2006 6:53, Clarence Dang wrote:
> > > On Monday 16 October 2006 09:59, Filipus Klutiero wrote:
> > > I personally think we should settle on a set of Creative Commons
> > > licenses.
> >
> > once they are (with CCv3 afaik) compatible with the GPL, i agree.
> > until then we're sort of stuck with the LGPL.
>
> But why does it matter whether icons are GPL compatible?  You're never
> linking or deriving code from icons except for the tricky #include <x.xpm>
> case.

It's not a matter of linking, it's matter of allowing modification and=20
redistribution (also of a modified version)

Another area where this can lead to problems is documentation, since the GN=
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=46DL allows unmodifyable sections. If I remember correctly KDE's documenta=
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contains a special clause that it is GFDL but does not contain such section=
s.

I think the main reason why this is important for Debian is that quite some=
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portion of their users are also distributors (Ubuntu, Xandros, etc, or cust=
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distributions like Munich's LiMux)


Cheers,
Kevin

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Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring

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