[odf-discuss] Apache2 and ODF (was: 16x16 mime type icons)

[Pete Harlow]

On 16/11/06, Thomas Zander <zander at kde.org> wrote:
>
> On Thursday 16 November 2006 11:22, Pete Harlow wrote:
> > Thomas,
> >
> > I don't know how much of the icon licence story you are familiar with,
> but
> > they did start off with the CC licence, and after much debate on this
> list
> > ended up with what you see.
>
> I followed the tail of it.
>
> > I'm still waiting to hear back from the FSF, but I have a feeling they
> may
> > need to also be available at option under the GPL/LGPL for use in
> certain
> > projects.
>
> There was a long talk about trademarking and licensing. And I believe that
> the
> general level of legal expertise was lacking in those threads.
>
> You currently have something that doesn't even look like a license, so
> better
> replace it with the proper CC license (use the wizard I pointed to) and in
> requests like the one you made to apache, be sure to make clear that
> licensing issues are open for discussion. So if someone requires GPL then
> you
> can re-license.
> Though I'm convinced that mature open source projects will not ask for
> such a
> thing.



IIRC the problem with the CC licence was the one of attribution, and with
the FSF licences obviously one of using the work in commercial packages.

The text currently used was based on the Tux Penguin drawing licence
http://www.isc.tamu.edu/~lewing/linux/
for which the desired usage is much the same as the icons, with a couple of
additions by Daniel.

Regards,
-- 
Pete Harlow
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