On Wed, 13.08.08 23:52, Patryk Zawadzki ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 4:40 PM, Lennart Poettering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 13.08.08 14:54, Bastien Nocera ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >> On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 15:28 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: > >> > For s-t-f i made sure only to include CC, GPL and LGPL licensed > >> > files. (see the readme). Some of the sounds that come from gnome-audio > >> > are CC-SA 2.0 however, which is not good enough for Debian. Which > >> > makes them good canidates to be replaced. > >> I'm sure the authors of those files can be co-axed into better licenses. > >> I thought this one would be enough to be considered free. FWIW, no > >> Debian developer ever contacted me about a licensing problem. > > They already contacted me, though. > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons_licenses#Debian > > > > I was a bit too lazy however to pursue the relicensing, especially > > since it doesn't really matter for the company/distro I work for and > > apparently was fine in g-a all the time. > > Probably a stupid idea but still worth the blind shot in my opinion. > Couldn't GNOME Foundation board or some other entity contact Google > and ask for a GPL/LGPL/whatever licensed version of the sounds Google > uses in their various apps including their web chat and Google Talk? > > It won't cost a penny either for us or for them. Google is known for > their support for OpenSource and they already share some of their > achievements under permissive licenses.
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