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List:       kde-licensing
Subject:    Re: [kde-licensing] What is the license of oxygen icons? [POSSIBLE LICENSE VIOLATION]
From:       Jonathan Riddell <jr () jriddell ! org>
Date:       2014-05-16 11:12:40
Message-ID: 20140516111240.GQ1088 () starsky ! 19inch ! net
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The icons as distributed by KDE are LGPL 3
http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Oxygen/Licensing

But from the now defunct oxygen-icons website:
"Oxygen icon theme is dual licensed. You may copy it under the
Creative Common Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License or the GNU Library
General Public License."

So it's not a problem to copy them using the CC licence.

Jonathan


On Thu, May 08, 2014 at 04:56:24PM -0400, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> oxygen-icons.org seems to have disappeared, making it harder to know a 
> definitive answer.
> 
> I'm trying to determine what is the actual licensing of the oxygen 
> icons, in connection to possible violations thereof. Specifically, 
> http://openiconlibrary.sourceforge.net/ claims they are dual-licensed as 
> CC-BY-SA 3.0, but I am unable to confirm this claim, and Wikipedia, 
> Fedora and http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Oxygen/Licensing all claim 
> that they are licensed *only* under LGPL. (Additionally, COPYING in the 
> tarballs only gives LGPL.)
> 
> Is there any truth to the CC-BY-SA claim? If not, is there someone to 
> whom I should be reporting this violation?
> 
> (It's worse than just openiconlibrary; who knows how many users are 
> using the icons in violation of LGPL...)
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