Re: Icon Licensing...

[Quentin Mathé]

Le 5 nov. 04, à 14:40, Gregory John Casamento a écrit :

> All,
>
> Have we made any decision or come to any conclusion on what license 
> we're going
> to use for the icons?   Last I heard there were concerns and 
> objections to
> using the suggested "Art" license and it's compatibility with the 
> GPL/LGPL.

I think we will use MIT/X11 license or model our license on it, I'm 
currently talking with Jasper Hauser about that.

> We really should get resolution on this at some point before the icons 
> are paid
> for so that the author knows what license to release them under.

True.

> Slightly
> better might be to have Jasper Hauser assign copyright to whoever pays 
> for the
> icons and have that person commit them to GNUstep under whatever 
> license we
> agree on.

Well I don't see why it would be slightly better… ?
I don't think Jasper will agree to let the copyright to someone else 
except GNUstep project itself (which doesn't exist legally I think), I 
understand him on this point. I must said myself I always found dubious 
to have a copyright holder which is not the author or the entity 
(company, project or whatever) which is the immediate recipient of the 
creation (I know it's recurrent practice in the US).

Quentin.

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