On Tue, 21 Dec 2010 10:39:31 +0100 Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > I'm gonna upload a new desktop-base today, fixing the various RC bugs > still around. > > If you have something to include there, please say so *now*, I won't be > able to work on it of the next few days. I understand your lack of time and I sympathize with you: I am often in a similar situation of spare time scarcity. However, time constraints should not be a reason to fix bugs in an incomplete manner: I will try hard to provide as much help as I possibly can during this evening, but this bug report should not be considered as closed, until all the issues are properly dealt with (of course). > > Check the svn and report back (preferably with patch) if you think > something is missing. > > Especially, Josselin, if you could take care of the gnome-debian-sid > artwork (either clarify the license or drop it completely), and > Francesco if you could find out the various licensing issues you noted > which remain? What follows is a summary of the remaining issues in Rev 238 http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/debian-desktop/packages/trunk/desktop-base/?rev=238&sc=1 as far as I can tell: * there does not seem to be any clear copyright notice (with years and copyright holders) and license for debian-security.xcf, which is derived from the DOUL (as correctly documented) and from a GNOME icon (under which license?!?) N.B.: Yves-Alexis Perez said that he would ping initial author to get some information. Ulrich Hansen provided additional information, but the copyright notice and license for the GNOME lock-button is still to be found. Now that I think of it: even the license for the resulting debian-security.xcf is yet to be specified... N.B.: an alternative approach could be to create a new debian-security.png from scratch, as I mentioned previously in http://bugs.debian.org/607458#65 * we still have to find out the copyright and license for the GNOME foot logo N.B.: it seems that the GNOME foot Logo is released under the terms of the LGPL v2.1 or later; at least that's what is stated on http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Gnomelogo.svg&oldid=39892275 However, I would like to find more official information about the license; moreover, I still cannot find a proper copyright notice... * we still have to find out the copyright and license for the KDE logo N.B.: the KDE Official Oxygen Logo seems to be released under the terms of the LGPL v2.1 or later, see http://www.kde.org/stuff/clipart.php and http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:KDE_logo.svg&oldid=43994097 I would like to find more official statement about the LGPL version and about the proper copyright notice... I will try and prepare a patch for the debian/copyright (against Rev 238) later this evening (hopefully), so stay tuned! -- http://www.inventati.org/frx/frx-gpg-key-transition-2010.txt New GnuPG key, see the transition document! ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == CA01 1147 9CD2 EFDF FB82 3925 3E1C 27E1 1F69 BFFE
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