Re: SVG version of GDB mascot (archer fish)

Andreas Arnez <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gdb.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, Sep 29 2017, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> From: Andreas Arnez <[email protected]>
>> Cc: Joel Brobecker <[email protected]>, [email protected]
>> Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2017 13:35:57 +0200
>> 
>> Since the SVG is strongly based on the original drawing,
>> it seems to me that we can not choose the license independently.  The
>> original fish is licensed as "CC BY-SA 3.0 US":
>> 
>>   http://www.bluebutton.com/misc/archer.comment
>> 
>> So I assume that the SVG version has to be licensed in the same way.  In
>> my patch I'll update the "mascot" page with the licensing information
>> and a link to the license
>> (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/).
>
> FWIW, https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html#OtherLicenses
> only mentions CC BY-SA 4.0, so I think we should first find out
> whether version 3.0 is GPL-compatible.

Hm, if I understand the license terms of CC BY-SA 3.0 US correctly, I
should be able to upgrade the license of my derivative work to CC BY-SA
4.0.  Sounds like that would be preferable?

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Andreas
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