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List:       kde-policies
Subject:    Re: Icon dispute and resolve
From:       Eva Brucherseifer <eva () kde ! org>
Date:       2004-01-16 17:32:51
Message-ID: 200401161832.51848.eva () kde ! org
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On Friday 16 January 2004 17:05, Ralf Nolden wrote:
> On Friday 16 January 2004 03:49, you wrote:
> > It would also greatly help if all artwork would come with a clear license
> > statement. It's currently anyone's guess which license applies to an icon
> > or who the copyright holder of such an icon is.
> >
> > For some reason KDE's artist department could never be bothered with
> > that.
>
> Hmm - yes. I think we need to put that to kde-policies and set up licensing
> guidelines so we could add a file
>
> "Artwork Licensing"
>
> or something to each CVS module that explains under which license artwork
> resides. Any other idea ?
>
> Ralf
>
> > Cheers,
> > Waldo
> >
> > On Fri January 16 2004 00:49, Ralf Nolden wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > due to that this seems to be the issue of the week, I've contacted
> > > Michael Robertson about the issue and the people who are involved in
> > > this.
> > >
> > > We will resolve the problems about the icons in a decent manner so that
> > > there are no questions open together with the Lindows people, Everaldo
> > > and the SuSE people who are involved. Discussing theoretical issues
> > > here doesn't help us much, we have clear guidelines about licensing and
> > > those count for everyone, artist, developer, translator or
> > > documentation writer. These guidelines were made to keep KDE free and
> > > redistributable and everyone *directly* involved in this needs to agree
> > > on them so that they are followed.
> > >
> > > I hope that people besides all love for exaggregational discussions
> > > come back to the carpet and fix bugs instead for 3.2 :) while the other
> > > people doing icons clear out their issues about icon licensing. We will
> > > make sure that the SVG files will be included also under LGPL which
> > > satisfies KDE's needs.
> > >
> > > Ralf

Very good work! This will help promo people who need scalable images for 
printing in all sizes a lot. It would be even better to have the "real source 
files" i.e. the files the artist works with. In this case this are the adobe 
illustrator files. 

I think the policy should be that, each added or updated icon should be 
accompanied by its source files and added to the appropriate place. For icon 
source files tackat created the module "art-devel" some time ago. Currently 
it holds some very old gimp files.

Greetings,
eva


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