Re: [Fwd: Re: gnome-themes and licensing]
On 4/27/06, Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> wrote:
> Some artists unhappy with the wording of the (L)GPL are looking for free
> art licenses, with or without copyleft. What would your recommendations
> for such licenses be? The BSD or Artistic licenses look fine for the
> latter case, but how about the former?
There is a license called the Free Art license, I don't know if that
is DFSG-free. Also be aware that the FSF doesn't approve of Artistic
version 1.
andrew
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Thomas Wood <thos@gnome.org>
> To: Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>
> Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 21:00:01 +0100
> Subject: Re: gnome-themes and licensing
> Josselin Mouette wrote:
> > Le samedi 15 avril 2006 à 13:16 +0100, Thomas Wood a écrit :
> >> Personally, I think it's understandable that artists may choose not to
> >> distribute their work under the (L)GPL, which is primarily a license for
> >> software. As long as the license they choose upholds the values of Free
> >> Software, I don't see it as a problem. However, I know there have been
> >> various lengthy discussions elsewhere about the status of the Creative
> >> Commons licenses, so I would like to have some advice before continuing.
> >
> > I think I would ask those people to wait for the 3.0 version of the
> > Creative Commons licenses, which promise to solve a number of small
> > issues[1] that were raised with 2.0 and which are still present in 2.5.
>
> Do you happen to know if there is any time scale for 3.0? I'd really
> like to get started on revamping gnome-themes, but I can't do it unless
> I can distribute the themes under a more appropriate license. If it's
> likely that a 3.0 CC license is not going to be available before 2.16,
> are there any other licenses that might be suitable to meet the needs of
> artists and distributors such as Debian?
>
> -Thomas
>
>
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