Re: gnome-themes and licensing

[Steve Frécinaux <nudrema gmail com>]

Thomas Wood wrote:
> With 2.16 now underway, I thought it was about time to give the 
> gnome-themes module a bit of a revamp. However, many of todays artists 
> want to use licenses other than the GPL to distribute their work (for 
> example, the Creative Commons "By Attribution" license[1], or the Free 
> Art license[2]). This would mean that parts of the gnome-themes module 
> would no longer be GPL or LGPL. What I need to know is what impact this 
> would have on distributors, and on the module's status in GNOME.

Maybe a silly answer, but to avoid flaming of some GPL-zealots 
distributions,  you could still use some configure magic to enable 
selecting themes to build/package on a license basis.

This is just a suggestion anyway, and it does certainly not solve your 
current issue...