Re: [kde-artists] Oxygen color palette - license

On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 11:15:45PM +0200, Jaros?aw Staniek wrote:
> Hello,
>  From http://kde-artists.org/views/guidelines :
> 
> "The Oxygen color palette is released under the Creative Commons 
> Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 License."
> 
> IANAL, but does this mean people will not able to use the palette to create 
> commercial software with KDE4-compliant look?
> 
> Also, "NoDerivs" clause means no less than "I cannot edit the palette, say in 
> KOffice styles fro my needs and distribute the style".
> 
> Let's think about this issue before KDE4 ships. Maybe this license could be 
> better suited for the task:
> 
> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/deed.en_GB

It's currently under a restrictive licence to stop people packaging it
and using it.  The artists want the Oxygen style to look fresh when
it's ready, the licence will change when it is more complete.

Jonathan