Re: Icon dispute and resolve

On Friday 16 January 2004 03:49, you wrote:
> It would also greatly help if all artwork would come with a clear license
> statement. It's currently anyone's guess which license applies to an icon
> or who the copyright holder of such an icon is.
>
> For some reason KDE's artist department could never be bothered with that.
Hmm - yes. I think we need to put that to kde-policies and set up licensing 
guidelines so we could add a file

"Artwork Licensing"

or something to each CVS module that explains under which license artwork 
resides. Any other idea ?

Ralf
>
> Cheers,
> Waldo
>
> On Fri January 16 2004 00:49, Ralf Nolden wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > due to that this seems to be the issue of the week, I've contacted
> > Michael Robertson about the issue and the people who are involved in
> > this.
> >
> > We will resolve the problems about the icons in a decent manner so that
> > there are no questions open together with the Lindows people, Everaldo
> > and the SuSE people who are involved. Discussing theoretical issues here
> > doesn't help us much, we have clear guidelines about licensing and those
> > count for everyone, artist, developer, translator or documentation
> > writer. These guidelines were made to keep KDE free and redistributable
> > and everyone *directly* involved in this needs to agree on them so that
> > they are followed.
> >
> > I hope that people besides all love for exaggregational discussions come
> > back to the carpet and fix bugs instead for 3.2 :) while the other people
> > doing icons clear out their issues about icon licensing. We will make
> > sure that the SVG files will be included also under LGPL which satisfies
> > KDE's needs.
> >
> > Ralf

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