You could, of course, ask the author of the icon(s) in question :)
-Ken On Oct 18, 2010 4:19 AM, "Matti Airas" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Thomas, > > I better start the reply by stating that I'm not a lawyer and none of > the opinions I present are necessarily official Nokia opinions (or > opinions of any of the other PySide copyright holders, for that matter) > but just views of my own. > > On 16.10.2010 19:21, ext Thomas Sturm wrote: >> Hi, >> >> does a Python program using PySide establish a "Combined Work" in the sense of the LGPL? > > Yes, I believe so. > >> If so, is it correct that I may release that program under FreeBSD >> but must add copies of the GPL/LGPL etc. as described by the LGPL? > > According to my understanding, you can release your program under any > license or under any platform. However, if you distribute PySide along > your program (instead of e.g. using a version provided by FreeBSD, if > any), LGPLv2.1 requires you to distribute the license text with the > library. That doesn't mean you have to license your program under LGPL, > of course. > >> If I use QIcon() to include an xpm icon that is under LGPL, does this >> change the situation in any way? >> >> What if I wanted to use QIcon() to include icons that are under GPL? > > Since LGPL and GPL only refer to program files and not data, I've > personally always found interpretation of the licenses in the context of > data files terribly difficult. > > You probably could think that the "viral" effect of (L)GPL is not > invoked if you load the file as "data", so your program would not need > to follow (L)GPL. However, I would argue that most probably the > copyright holder didn't intend to allow the use of the icon files in a > non-(L)GPL context, and therefore you'd be at least "infringing his > intent", so to say. So, if your program is non-(L)GPL, I strongly > recommend to not use and (L)GPL data files as part of your program. > Again, this is just my personal opinion, of course. > > Cheers, > > ma. > _______________________________________________ > PySide mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openbossa.org/listinfo/pyside
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