Re: non-free artwork in main
Le mardi 26 septembre 2006 à 14:57 +0200, Bastian Venthur a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> today I received two bugreports regarding non-free artwork in my
> packages. I maintain several iconsets with thousands of icons. I think
> it is quite impossible to check every single icon whether it is free or not.
>
> Most icons don't contain a copyright string, so grepping for certain
> keywords is not practical or will at least not show every possible
> violation.
>
> I'm currently aware of icons like the firefox- or the ubuntu-icon.
> Probably other brands like suse, redhad (the Debian-logo?) etc are
> affected too. But again, this is very likely only a subset of all
> possible violations in my packages, so checking for violations I'm aware
> of (and removing those icons in the dfsg-version) will probably not
> uncover all violations.
Beware not to be confused between licensing issues and trademark ones.
For example, a SuSE icon taken from their artwork packages is likely to
be non-free. However an icon looking alike but made from scratch by
another artist is only likely to infringe the trademark, not the
copyright.
I'm not sure of what to do in the latter case; I've asked on
debian-legal, but without an answer yet. I'm currently assuming it is ok
to keep such icons.
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