+legal-list, any suggestions?

Stefan

On 02/04/2013 11:03 PM, Jeff Johnston wrote:
> On 12/14/2012 01:11 PM, David Nečas wrote:
>> On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 12:54:13PM -0500, Jeff Johnston wrote:
>>> I personally like the exception method ala Autotools but would be
>>> fine with the GFDL 1.3 license which has already been cleared with
>>> Eclipse.org.
>>
>> I hope that whatever license is chosen it is meant to be be dual with
>> GNU GPL under which they are implicitly licensed now.  GNU FDL is a
>> peculiar license, incompatible with GNU GPL(!) and in some variants
>> verging on non-free, whether cleared by eclipse.org or not.  If the
>> files were GNU FDL license I am afraid many would nave to look for
>> replacements under a different license.
>>
>>> Is there any way of contacting the original contributor of the .png
>>> files to have them licensed?  If not, I would suggest replacing
>>> them. It should be simple to find such icons with an appropriate
>>> license.
>>
>> As someone who likes the current images and their current license I
>> wonder what is the best way to keep them used when the documentation of
>> my projects is compiled.
>>
>> Yeti
>>
>
> Any progress on this?  This is potentially a serious issue.  Should I
> open a bug against gtk docs?
>
> GPL would be unacceptable from our stand-point for documentation.  I
> think the best solution would be that the owner of the documentation
> gets to decide how to license the generated files (i.e. they purposely
> have no license information).
>
> The icons still need to be dealt with.
>
> -- Jeff
>
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