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List:       kde-licensing
Subject:    Re: KDE artwork : reuse of icons under GPL-2 ?
From:       Jonathan Riddell <jr () jriddell ! org>
Date:       2009-01-27 0:51:24
Message-ID: 20090127005123.GN9174 () muse ! 19inch ! net
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On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 01:01:03PM +0100, Christophe Boccheciampe wrote:
> 
> Hi, and happy new year :)
> 
> I would like to (slightly) modify and reuse some icons from various KDE packages \
> (mostly "crystalsvg", "hicolor" and "oxygen" icons, provided by kdebase-data or \
> kdeartwork-iconthemes from Gentoo) in some applications. Some of these packages - \
> and icons - are under GPL-2 license (right ?).

crystalsvg are GPL 2, oxygen icons are GPL 3.

> I've read that using some work under GPL-2 implies the entire new application to be \
> under GPL.

This is only the case if you embed the image in your application, for
example using a Qt resource file.  In KDE we just load the file at
runtime so the application's licence is unaffected by the artwork.

Jonathan
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