[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#763063: Licensing issue on images files
Package: thunar-volman
Version: 0.8.0-4
Severity: important
Hi,
while preparing my packaging of Tails' OpenPGP Applet (ITP #756404), it was
pointed to me that there were issues on images files shipped with it : they
where licensed using CC-BY-SA 2.0, which is not DFSG-compliant. They seemed
indeed derived from icons using an old tango theme, which were indeed licensed
CC-BY-SA 2.0 at the time.
I saw that on my Sid system, several packages have the same issue :
~$ rgrep -rl 'by-sa/2\.0' /usr/share/icons/*/scalable |xargs dlocate --package-only
gitg
network-manager-gnome
soundconverter
thunar-volman
xfburn
xfce4-battery-plugin
xfce4-fsguard-plugin
xfce4-power-manager-data
There may be more, since it only reports the packages I have installed.
It doesn't seem to be dual-licensing, judging from the content of the svg files
involved.
So, I asked on debian-devel but received very few responses, mostly
inconclusives or saying we should allow CC-BY-SA 2.0 in debian [1] [2]
This is not an issue in the package I work on anymore, since I could remake the
icons and include them upstream. However, I think it's best to track this issue
and maybe clarify once and for all what to do with CC-BY-SA 2.0 images.
Currently, I see the following options :
- convincing upstream to relicense the files using a later (>= 3.0) version of the license, which, as I found out, can be difficult
- removing or replacing the files
- decide that CC-BY-SA 2.0 is OK after all.
Cheers,
[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2014/08/msg00073.html
[2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2014/09/msg00725.html
--
Clement Hermann (nodens)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.16-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages thunar-volman depends on:
ii exo-utils 0.10.2-4
ii libc6 2.19-11
ii libexo-1-0 0.10.2-4
ii libglib2.0-0 2.40.0-5
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.24.24-1
ii libgudev-1.0-0 215-4
ii libnotify4 0.7.6-2
ii libpango-1.0-0 1.36.7-1
ii libxfce4ui-1-0 4.10.0-6
ii libxfce4util6 4.10.1-2
ii libxfconf-0-2 4.10.0-3
ii thunar 1.6.3-1
thunar-volman recommends no packages.
thunar-volman suggests no packages.
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