[Mudlet-makers] [Bug 1404763] Re: mudlet.svg has non-free license

Tue, 23 Dec 2014 15:20:56 -0800 

Humm, the svg file starts with:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<!-- Created with Inkscape (http://www.inkscape.org/) -->
<svg
   xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/";
   xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#";
   xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#";
   xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg";
   xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg";
   xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink";
   xmlns:sodipodi="http://sodipodi.sourceforge.net/DTD/sodipodi-0.dtd";
   xmlns:inkscape="http://www.inkscape.org/namespaces/inkscape";
   inkscape:export-ydpi="90.000000"
   inkscape:export-xdpi="90.000000"
   inkscape:export-filename="/home/jimmac/Desktop/wi-fi.png"
   width="147.95685"
   height="147.89775"
   id="svg11300"
   sodipodi:version="0.32"
   inkscape:version="0.46"
   sodipodi:docname="mudlet.svg"
   inkscape:output_extension="org.inkscape.output.svg.inkscape"
   version="1.0"
   style="display:inline;enable-background:new">
...
and the section you are referring to is:
 <metadata
     id="metadata4">
    <rdf:RDF>
      <cc:Work
         rdf:about="">
        <dc:format>image/svg+xml</dc:format>
        <dc:type
           rdf:resource="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/StillImage"; />
        <dc:creator>
          <cc:Agent>
            <dc:title>Breathe Icon Team</dc:title>
          </cc:Agent>
        </dc:creator>
        <dc:source />
        <cc:license
           rdf:resource="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/"; />
        <dc:title>Breathe Icon Set template</dc:title>
        <dc:subject>
          <rdf:Bag />
        </dc:subject>
        <dc:date />
        <dc:rights>
          <cc:Agent>
            <dc:title />
          </cc:Agent>
        </dc:rights>
        <dc:publisher>
          <cc:Agent>
            <dc:title />
          </cc:Agent>
        </dc:publisher>
        <dc:identifier />
        <dc:relation />
        <dc:language />
        <dc:coverage />
        <dc:description />
        <dc:contributor>
          <cc:Agent>
            <dc:title>Jakub Steiner, Cory Kontros</dc:title>
          </cc:Agent>
        </dc:contributor>
      </cc:Work>
      <cc:License
         rdf:about="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/";>
        <cc:permits
           rdf:resource="http://creativecommons.org/ns#Reproduction"; />
        <cc:permits
           rdf:resource="http://creativecommons.org/ns#Distribution"; />
        <cc:requires
           rdf:resource="http://creativecommons.org/ns#Notice"; />
        <cc:requires
           rdf:resource="http://creativecommons.org/ns#Attribution"; />
        <cc:prohibits
           rdf:resource="http://creativecommons.org/ns#CommercialUse"; />
        <cc:permits
           rdf:resource="http://creativecommons.org/ns#DerivativeWorks"; />
        <cc:requires
           rdf:resource="http://creativecommons.org/ns#ShareAlike"; />
      </cc:License>
    </rdf:RDF>
  </metadata>
...
Yet the two names I see: Jakub Steiner, Cory Kontros are member of the people 
working on Ubuntu, and indeed from the line near the top: '   
inkscape:export-filename="/home/jimmac/Desktop/wi-fi.png"' jimmac seems to be 
an identity of Jakub Steiner.  OTOH If I use GIMP to open the file and use the 
properties menu item and then select the copyright tab that comes up "empty".  
The git history indicates that this file goes right back to the beginning of 
that but the entry that added it is completely devoid of details (no author, no 
committer, no time stamp) though it proceeds a merge "Merge commit 
'origin/text'" by Bruno Bigras <[email protected]> at 03:50:38 on 2009-01-24.

I have always understood that the Mudlet "arch" logo was the work of
Thorsten Wilms but I think Vadim who was active when the work was done
in the past can better clarify what the license on this work is.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1404763

Title:
  mudlet.svg has non-free license

Status in Mudlet the MUD client:
  New

Bug description:
  I finally got some experimental mudlet 3.0 compiled and have a Debian
  package. lintian then complained

  E: mudlet source: license-problem-cc-by-nc-sa mudlet.svg

  And indeed that is the license of this file and (I assume) the png

  grep -- -nc mudlet.svg
             rdf:resource="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/"; />
           rdf:about="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/";>

  The nc part of the license means non-commerical use. That means
  anything from you cannot sell the icon to you cannot sell mudlet or
  even sell a CD with some packages that also includes mudlet. For
  Debian this would technically mean the entire package needs to move to
  non-free.

   I don't think that was the intention of the author of that file. It
  basically makes it incompatible (in a distribution sense, you're not
  linking to it) to the rest of the GPL-2+ source code of mudlet itself.

  In the interim I'll be removing the icon so that mudlet can go into
  the main distribution, but it would be nice to get some clarity on
  what the license should be.  This problem probably also affects mudlet
  2 as well.

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