Re: [gNewSense-art] A license issue for artwork within the gNS OS?

[Sam Geeraerts]

al3xu5 / dotcommon wrote:
> Hence the doubt: the artwork to be used within the gNS operating system should
> be relicensed to the GPL (to avoid incompatibility or license violation)???

The gNewSense distribution is an aggregate and does not fall under the 
GPL as a whole. Background images are separate from any software or 
other artwork. Works such as themes can be considered as derivatives 
from the software they apply to in some circumstances and so would need 
a license that's compatible with that piece of software.

So if there are problems, they're not with gNewSense as a whole. There 
might be issues with compatibility between software and artwork or 
between several pieces of artwork (e.g. GPL'ed logo with other copyleft 
images).