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

[Craig Small]

I'm pretty convinced this license confusion is unintentional because, as
Stephen says, the metadata in the file has a mixture of things.  If you
open the svg file in inkscape it shows all the relevant fields.

The best course would be for Thorsten and/or Vadim to verify who the
author of this file is and what license the file should be under.  My
preference would be for a DFSG-free license with the easiest being put
the svg file under GPL-2+ which is the same as the code.   In fact as
the about dialog (at least) uses the icon then technically mudlet is not
redistributable as it has GPL code mixed with something that is licensed
with a GPL-incompatible license.

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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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