Hello Francesco, I've asked the author of the as "Free" stated icons how his understanding of "Free" is, see forwarded message below.
I think that his reply should clearly indicate that the usage of the icons are 'free' as stated by the DFSG. I know that the Bug is already set to closed, this shoudl be for the clarification of the as "License: Free" stated icons in AB-Transfers. Regards Patrick Wacker ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Re: License for the yopls icon package Date: Wednesday 19 June 2013, 23:12:20 From: evgen <[email protected]> To: Patrick Wacker <[email protected]> 19.06.2013 23:29, Patrick Wacker пишет: > Hello Evgen, > > I've found your yopls icon package at the iconspedia website [1]. > > Because the license there is stated as free, I decided to use some of them as > a replacement for icons which are licensed as "non commercial" in my > Application 'AB-Transfers' [2] (only in German). > > At the time where I wanted to release a DFSG (Debian Free Software Guideline) > [3] compliant version of AB-Transfers there came up some issues. I've found > your comment at deviantart for yopls ("It is free for any use, including use > in commercial products"). But this gets the following digest of message #44 at > the Debian Bug Tracking System (all messages available at [4]) > >> This is a significant improvement, but still not crystal clear: it is >> not explicitly stated whether "use" means "inclusion into a product in >> unmodified form" (which would not be enough to qualify as DFSG-free) or >> also mean "copy", "redistribution", "modification", "preparation and >> distribution of derivative works", and so forth (which would be >> regarded as DFSG-free, as far as I can tell)... > Could you explain your understanding of "Free" in a more detailed way? > Particularly for the above statements of "copy", "redistribution", > "modification", "preparation and distribution of derivative works". > > > If you do not want that your icons would be used in this way. I will of course > appreciate it and would remove them from the sources of AB-Transfers. > > > Please let me know if you have any questions. > > Kind regards > Patrick Wacker > > > [1] http://www.iconspedia.com/pack/yopls-icons-3728/ > [2] http://schmufu.dyndns.org/dokuwiki/ab_transfer:start > [3] http://www.debian.org/social_contract.en.html#guidelines > [4] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=710270 > Hello Patrick, You can use them however you wish. There is no restrictions. All of the actions mentioned above are allowed ("copy", "redistribution", "modification", "preparation and distribution of derivative works", and so forth). Thank you for asking. ----------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
