2018-01-31 16:32 GMT+01:00 Carsten Haitzler <[email protected]>:

> On Wed, 31 Jan 2018 14:36:17 +0100 Davide Andreoli <[email protected]
> >
> said:
>
> > 2018-01-31 10:52 GMT+01:00 Carsten Haitzler <[email protected]>:
> >
> > > On Wed, 31 Jan 2018 14:37:28 +1030 Simon Lees <[email protected]> said:
> > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On 31/01/18 10:39, Davide Andreoli wrote:
> > > > > The fdo icons in the efl theme are indeed GPL3,
> > > > > as clearly staten in COPYING.images and data/elementary/themes/fdo
> > > > >
> > > > > I have no idea about the contamination and the resulting theme
> final
> > > > > license.
> > > > >
> > > > > For sure I want (and we must) them to remain to that license.
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > I don't understand why you wouldn't want them licensed under an
> > > > equivalent creative commons license rather then GPL-3, GPL-3 is
> designed
> > > > for source code where as creative commons is designed for images,
> using
> > > > the wrong sort of licenses leads to the ambiguities we are seeing
> here,
> > > > if we can't convince the upstream developers to change there isn't
> much
> > > > we can do but its worth trying.
> > >
> > > we need to probably replace them with icons that are not licensed like
> the
> > > above.
> > >
> > > as for contamination, that is generally considered to be true with
> code if
> > > they
> > > share the same memory space. icons on the other hand do not. they are
> first
> > > decoded/rendered then manipulated. code from the binary is mapped
> directly
> > > into
> > > memory as-is pretty much minus relocation.
> > >
> > > so while i don't think DATA files would leak their license to efl,
> gplv3
> > > does
> > > create requirements of its host system (to allow any gplv3 components
> to be
> > > replaceable by the end user) and that requires any system that would
> ship
> > > these
> > > to not be locked down. that is generally disliked by commercial
> vendors.
> > >
> > > so my take is "replace them". i could replace them anyway if the theme
> > > fundamentally changed (e.g. became flat).
> > >
> >
> > Did you see how many fdo icons are there? I don't think we have the
> manpower
> > to redesign all of them.
>
> replace may mean replacing with an icon set that has a better license... :)
>

The majority of the fdo icons we have now are not just a copy of another
theme,
I draw them one by one starting from the svg shapes of various themes. They
are recolored, flattened and some fully redrawn. All that took to me
something
like a month of nightly work and I'm not sure we can find a theme that match
the E theme so closely, but I'm open to suggestions :)


>
> > > > > 2018-01-30 14:05 GMT+01:00 Jean-Philippe André <[email protected]
> >:
> > > > >
> > > > >> On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 9:30 PM, Simon Lees <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > > > >>
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>> 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.
> > > > >>
> > > > >>
> > > > >> Not so sure. HTML seems to be a crazy exception: An HTML file
> > > containing
> > > > >> GPL licensed JS code is not GPL itself. Not consistent but makes
> > > sense. EDJ
> > > > >> probably also falls under the category of "container".
> > > > >>
> > > > >>
> > > > >>> 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.
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>
> > > > >> Yeah that's partly why I'm asking. :)
> > > > >>
> > > > >> --
> > > > >> Jean-Philippe André
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