Bug#678746: desktop-base: Joy theme is a mix of incompatibly-licensed works
Le 24 juin 2012 à 14:34, Francesco Poli a écrit :
> On Sun, 24 Jun 2012 07:34:50 -0400 Paul Tagliamonte wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 11:13:31AM +0200, Francesco Poli (wintermute) wrote:
> [...]
>>>
>>> First of all, these debian/copyright paragraphs fail to acknowledge that
>>> the Joy theme is based on the Debian “Open Use” (without “Debian” word)
>>> logo. But this may be fixed easily.
>>
>> ACK'd. I'll fix this tonight. Thank you!
>
> You're welcome!
>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> The major issue seems to be that the Joy plymouth theme mixes parts
>>> released under CC-by-sa-v3.0 and parts released under GPLv2+.
>>> Since CC-by-sa-v3.0 is incompatible with GPLv2+, I would say that the
>>> resulting work is legally undistributable.
>>
>> This *might* be true if it was two bits of code that get linked
>> together, but since Plymouth (and the plugin, which is GPLv2) only
>> render the CC-BY-SA 3.0 work, it should be fine.
>
> Well, if what you mean is that a GPL-licensed program loads a
> CC-licensed image (as input data) and renders it on the screen, then it
> seems that the license incompatibility is irrelevant.
>
> Sorry for the misunderstanding, but the debian/copyright file is not
> very clear on this.
> Hence, please, at least, clarify the debian/copyright file.
>
>>
>> I'll CC debian-leagl for comment
>
> OK, I am keeping debian-legal copied.
>
> [...]
>> In this case, I'll modify this line to show the files that I edited are
>> still GPLv2, and the images it's self is CC-BY-SA 3.0. No problem, no
>> big deal.
>
> Yes, please: as I said above, a clarification is needed.
>
> [...]
>>
>>>
>>> Since everything else in the desktop-base package is GPL-compatible,
>>> I strongly recommend to persuade Adrien Aubourg and Paul Tagliamonte
>>
>> I'm fine with whatever license comes up. I just wanted to keep
>> consistancy.
>>
>>> to re-license their work under the terms of the GNU GPL v2 or later.
>>> Or, at least, to dual-license it under CC-by-sa-v3.0 and GPLv2+.
>>> (In the latter case, the complete text of CC-by-sa-v3.0 should be
>>> included in the debian/copyright file, though.)
>
> My recommendation is very much related to consistency.
> Since rest of the package is all GPL-compatible, it would be really
> great if this new theme were GPL-compatible as well.
>
> Hence, I *still* recommend you to persuade Adrien Aubourg to re-license
> (or dual-license) under GPLv2+ !
> I really hope this may be achieved.
No need to convince me. Of course I'll re-license my work to GPL. I realised I made a mistake by licensing the work to CC.
I'll change the Joy wiki page to indicate the licensed, and repost my works on debianart changing the license.
Adrien Aubourg
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