On Thu, 14.08.08 00:18, Lennart Poettering ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > 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. > > JFDI!
Also note that there isn't really a shortage of properly licensed sounds anymore these days: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sound_samples it's just a matter of picking appropriate sounds from this set and making a theme out of them. Volunteers? Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net ICQ# 11060553 http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4 _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
