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Re: Using copied icons from other packages



On Wednesday, April 9, 2025 10:55:22 AM Mountain Standard Time Joachim 
Zobel wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I am currently packaging the tasmota device manager. This is mostly
> straight forward. The upstream application does however contain an
> icons.py file generated with pyrcc5. This contains non free icons
> that I want to replace. Most of them can be replaced with icons
> already existing in Debian. This will be done by using those to
> generate a replacement icons.py. The others will be replaced with
> newly created free licensed icons.
> 
> Is this acceptable with respect to policy? How do I handle copying
> the Debian icons with respect to the copyright file?

The answer depends a little on specifics, but generally.

1.  If you are utilizing icons that are installed on a system by 
another package (through a package dependency), you don’t need to 
reference them in debian/copyright at all.

2.  If you are including the icons in your package, as long as their 
licenses are compatible, you list them in debian/copyright the same as 
you would any other file.

-- 
Soren Stoutner
soren@debian.org

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