Re: [Gimp-developer] HELP with SYMBOLIC icon theme for Gimp.

[Jehan Pagès <jehan marmottard gmail com>]

Hi,

On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 9:08 PM, Sven Claussner <scl gplus gmail com> wrote:
> Another thing we should consider is the license. The used symbolic
> icon set is licensed under the Creative Commons Share Alike License 3
> (CCBYSA3). It is probably [incompatible with the GPL] used in GIMP
> and could also be incompatible with Linux distributor approvals.
> IMHO either the icon set and theme are relicenced under the GPL or we
> need something else if we want to integrate them into GIMP.
> The Darklooks theme uses the GPLv2.

Why would CC by-sa v3 *for themes* be incompatible with GPLv3 *for
code*? Do you have any information to backup this?

I know that the FSF says not to use it for code, but it says it is
good for arts though. And I think since themes are not "compiled in"
or "linked" to the code, there is absolutely no legal need to have
compatible licenses. I am pretty sure there are a whole bunch of Free
Software projects out there which use CC by-sa for arts (themes,
icons, etc.) and GPL for code. And we were even considering this a few
days ago on the IRC channel (relicensing all our brushes/pattern and
all other GIMP default data in CC by-sa).

I am no lawman though, so if you have more information about this
claim, ok. Otherwise from what I thought to know, there is absolutely
no problem to have CC by-sa for themes in our main tree.

Jehan

> If this is clarified: As the 2.8 branch is for bugfixes I'm for
> integration into the master branch so the theme will be in the 2.10
> release and who likes can use it in 2.8 anyway (both use GTK+ 2).
>
> JEsuSdA 8) thanks anyway for your work. You did a great job and now
> that we're further there's surely less work to be done. Keep it up! :-)
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Sven
>
> [incompatible with the GPL]:
>   http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html
>   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_FSF_approved_software_licenses
>
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