On mer., 2014-12-03 at 22:06 +0100, Francesco Poli wrote: > [...] > | > For the scripted / XML parts it’s all based on Joy and former work > and > | > can be published under the same license(s). > | > The KDM icons are from Joy also. > | > The main artwork is already stated as CC-BY 3.0 by Juliette on the > wiki. > [...] > > Now, as stated on the debian/copyright file of the desktop-base > package: > > [...] > | The Joy theme is © 2012 Adrien Aubourg and released under the GPLv2 > | license. > [...] > | The Joy plymouth script is Copyright © 2009 Canonical Ltd., > | Copyright © 2010 Aurélien COUDERC and Copyright © 2012 Jonathan > Carter under > | the GPLv2+. > [...] > | The Joy KDM theme is © 2012 Eshat Cakar and © 2010 Roman Shtylman > GPLv2 > | with artwork from Adrien Aubourg under the GPLv2 license. > [...] > > [quoted from > https://tracker.debian.org/media/packages/d/desktop-base/copyright-8.0.0~exp1 > ] > > The question is: how can the Lines theme be released under CC-by-v3.0, > when it's in part based on material available under GPL-v2 ? The Lines theme (by Juliette) is CC-BY 3.0. I guess you talk about the derived work (the KDM theme)? > These two licenses are notoriously incompatible with each other. Aren't you confusing with CC-BY 2.0? > > I think that Juliette Belin should be asked to re-license the Lines > theme under the terms of the GNU GPL v2. > Or, at least, to dual-license it. Maybe you forgot to add her to the mail recipients, then? > > > > > > Moreover, are some (or all) of these proposed themes going to be > > > included in the desktop-base package? > > > Or just the "chosen one"? > > > > Just the chosen one > > > > We have wanted multiple theme packages in Debian for a long time but > > it hasn't happened yet. > [...] > > That's unfortunate. Things like boot loader or display manager themes > should be made easy to choose for the system administrator... > Your help is really welcome for Stretch, I think. A lot of people seem to want that feature, but so far none of them actually implemented it. -- Yves-Alexis
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