Re: [gnome-love] License of images

[אנטולי קרסנר <tombackton gmail com>]

I totally agree, I checked all these things and the only license I found
is "GPLv2 or later", which is prefect. I just want to make sure. Maybe
Gnome has some policy for the license of images, I don't know.





On א', 2013-05-19 at 15:21 -0004, Adam Dingle wrote:
> Anatoly,
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> the source code to Gnome Mines is here:
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>   https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-mines/tree/
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> In its home directory it has a COPYING file containing the GPL v2:
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>   https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-mines/tree/COPYING
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> The 'data' directory, which contains the icons, has no other licensing
> information:
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>   https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-mines/tree/data
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> The About box has a License button that displays this text:
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>   Mines is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
> under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
> Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your
> option) any later version.
>
>
> I am not a lawyer, but given everything above I personally would not
> hesitate to use any of the gnome-mines icons in a GPLv3 project.
>
>
> adam
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> On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 10:57 AM, אנטולי קרסנר <tombackton gmail com>
> wrote:
> > Hello, I'm writing a free software (GPLv3) "mine sweeper" game for
> > homework in Java, and I'd like to use icons from Gnome Mines (and
> > mimic its user interface). What license do the images and data files
> > of Gnome apps have? I didn't see any special license for the images
> > (tried Googling it, read the help in Yelp, looked at the Gir repo,
> > looked at the "thanks" frame). Do they use GPL too? Anatoly
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