On Thu, 02 Jun 2011 15:59:11 +0200 Carl Fürstenberg wrote: > Package: minidlna > Severity: serious > Justification: Policy 2.1 > > the source code file icons.c includes binary blobs detailing the NetGear > logo and the Tux logo. Hi! I am a debian-legal subscriber, and I would like to comment on this bug report. First of all, thanks for spotting this issue and for reporting it. > > While the source code is licensed under GPL2, the file in question only > states following: > > * Penguin images are the creation of Larry Ewing (lewing@isc.tamu.edu) using The GIMP. More information about the famous Tux the Penguin image here: http://www.isc.tamu.edu/~lewing/linux/ (I'm assuming we are talking about this image, right?) Unfortunately the "license" is very incomplete and unclear: | Feel free to do whatever you see fit with the images, you are | encouraged to integrate them into other designs that fit your need. [...] | Permission to use and/or modify this image is granted provided | you acknowledge me lewing@isc.tamu.edu and The GIMP if someone asks. I tried (back in 2005) to get in touch with Larry Ewing and persuade him that a clearer license should be granted, but I have never received any reply to my messages... You may try to contact him now: it's possible that you turn out to be luckier than me! According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Ewing his current home page is: http://lewing.org/ Maybe the e-mail address shown there is more up-to-date or appropriate... > * NETGEAR images Copyright (c) 2008- NETGEAR, Inc. All Rights Reserved. > > It doesn't explicit state which licenses these binary blobs are under > (there are four of each, two png and two jpeg). Only the tux image is > used in the binary package. If this is confirmed, then I think the best thing to do is dropping the NETGEAR images from the source package, and trying to get a GPL-compatible license for the Tux images (I suggest a simple permissive non-copyleft license: the Expat one, http://www.jclark.com/xml/copying.txt ). Bye. (And good luck with the persuasion effort for the Tux image!) -- 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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