On Wed, 26 Jan 2005, Stephen Gran wrote: > I am packaging clamav, and upstream uses latex2html to generate the > html documentation for it. The problem is that upstream has not been > including the icons from latex2html in the distributed tarball, > breaking links for users who don't happen to have latex2html > installed (the hyperlinks point to a latex2html install, rather than > the same directory) Bleck. Yeah, latex2html license is not DFSG free nor is it GPL compatible. > Do the icons count as 'contains or is a derivative of this > software'? Yes, assuming they're actually under this license. > It might mean yes, but I thought I would solicit suggestions. It > makes no difference to me - I'll just not ship them if they are > non-free; it saves the postinstall uudecode step as well :) > > My fear is that if the rest of the license applies, it appears to be > make it incompatible with the GPL, although I am not sure. Yes, this is correct. If this really is an big issue, e-mail me with the sizes of the icons, what the icons are supposed to represent, and the name of the icons. [But please, don't send me the icons themselves... I've not looked at them, and I'd rather not.] I'll whip out a set of cheesy MIT licensed icons with source that you can trivially include in your package (or in any other package, for that matter.) [If this really is a common situtation, I may just package them myself.] Don Armstrong -- "The question of whether computers can think is like the question of whether submarines can swim." -- Edsgar Dijkstra http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu
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