On 30/01/18 22:20, Jean-Philippe André wrote: > Hi, > > Sungtaek pointed out to me that we have GPLv3-licensed artworks (unsual for > images) in our theme, under data/elementary/theme/fdo. Those images are are > then included in the compiled theme default.edj. One source is clearly > GPLv3: > https://tiheum.deviantart.com/art/Faenza-Icons-173323228 > > Now I wonder what the implications of this are... > 1. Does Elementary become GPL because we load the theme and it contains > executable code (embryo & edje programs), so the theme is to be considered > a library, contaminating everything?? > 2. Or only the theme itself is GPL, by contamination from those images? > 3. Or is the compiled theme file not GPL because we're not linking or > derivating, merely archiving those images like in a Zip file, in which case > only what's in the tree is GPL? This would be same as HTML: > https://news.slashdot.org/story/13/06/26/2113242/when-gpl-becomes-almost-gpl-the-css-images-and-javascript-loophole/informative-comments#comments > > In the FAQ I only found a mention about fonts: > https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html#FontException > We don't have such an exception. > > Pretty sure there is no problem (i.e. #3 is right), but IANAL so I'd rather > ask away :) >
Licence wise i've always considered themes to be separate, whether that is correct or not is another question. GPL with images is silly anyway and we really should be asking upstream to relicense with some form of creative commons anyway which makes far more sense, but I guess the theme is probably technically GPL-3 as a binary. Probably the biggest actual real life issue is if the theme is being used in consumer devices such as tizen you would need to provide consumers a way to swap there stock theme for one of there choice. -- Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek SUSE Linux Adelaide Australia, UTC+10:30 GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B
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