Re: KDE artwork : reuse of icons under GPL-2 ?

On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 01:01:03PM +0100, Christophe Boccheciampe wrote:
> 
> Hi, and happy new year :)
> 
> I would like to (slightly) modify and reuse some icons from various KDE packages (mostly "crystalsvg", "hicolor" and "oxygen"
> icons, provided by kdebase-data or kdeartwork-iconthemes from Gentoo) in some applications. Some of these packages - and icons -
> are under GPL-2 license (right ?).

crystalsvg are GPL 2, oxygen icons are GPL 3.

> I've read that using some work under GPL-2 implies the entire new application to be under GPL.

This is only the case if you embed the image in your application, for
example using a Qt resource file.  In KDE we just load the file at
runtime so the application's licence is unaffected by the artwork.

Jonathan