Re: Theme licensing

[Carlos Guerreiro <carlos guerreiro nokia com>]

ext Loïc Minier wrote:
>         Hi there,
>
>  It seems hildon-theme-layout-4 and hildon-theme-plankton are under some
>  "Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5" license.  This license is
>  considered non-free by Debian (in fact I think Debian considers pretty
>  much all Creative Commons non-free, except some to be released 3.0
>  licenses).  This is an issue for distribution in the main archive of
>  the Hildon stack, especially for Debian.
>
>  Would it be possible to license these more permissively?  One option,
>  if you need some control, would be to have very permissive licenses,
>  but protect the uses by a somewhat permissive trademark policy which
>  requires renaming of the branding if the differences are too big.
>   
We're looking into this.
>  If fixing the license isn't possible, is it possible to use alternate
>  packages under a free license?
>   
I hope that doesn't become necessary.
>    Thanks!
>