YazooSmileys look non-free

Christopher Martin <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.licensing
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Hello,

The apparent license of the kdeartwork/emoticons/YazooSmileys{16,22} 
(contained in a readme.txt in each directory) looks exceedingly un-free. 
For instance, they are for "private/non commercial use only", you "may not 
alter these Icons", "may not distribute or post these icons on any site 
that is not authorised by me", and "can not sell them add them to any sort 
of commercial pack including CD collections". There is no reference to a 
standard license like the GPL.

It would appear that these emoticons really shouldn't be in a standard KDE 
module (can't even be sold on CD? modified?). Or else Stefan Gehn, who 
added the emoticons to the archive, should negotiate with the author to 
have their situation improved (presumably he can comment on the intentions 
of the upstream author better than most). I mailed him a bit earlier, but 
haven't yet received a response.

Thanks,
Christopher Martin

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