On Tue 9.Mar'10 at 16:42:19 +0100, Tamas TEVESZ wrote: > > hello, > > WPrefs.app/tiff/README: > > "All other graphics are copyright 1998,1999 by Marco van Hylckama Vlieg > > ([email protected]) > > And have the following license:
Hm, strange. The above part was written by Kojima in 2000-07-30, commit 8c35d571... > These icons are NOT GPL. You are not allowed to use these icons > for anything except WPrefs.app. It's also prohibited to > redistribute this set apart from the WindowMaker source tree." whereas the above paragraph was added by Dan in 1999-01-25, commit 416e3a82, which is _before_ Kojima has updated the license for Marco's icons (to GPL) in 2000-03-30, commit f65c5498. Look at the top level Changelog, where it is written "- changed license of Marco's icons to GPL" which comes from the March 2000 commit by Kojima. So it appears that when Kojima changed the license of Marco's icons to GPL in March 2000 he forgot to remove the "NOT GPL" warning written by Dan in 1999. But Kojima updated the WPrefs.app/tiff/README later in 2000 (so after changing the license to GPL), but did not remove the "NOT GPL" part, even though he wrote the "And have the following licence:" just before it. > COMPLETELY contrary to this, the top-level readme states this: > > "The icons that are distributed with this program and were made by > Marco van Hylckama Vlieg, are licensed through the GNU General Public > License. Read the COPYING file for the complete license." Yeah, this is when Kojima changed the license to GPL in 03.2000, prior to that it was licensed through the OpenContent License. > someone needs to track this guy down and ask for a formal > clarification, otherwise, i believe the tiffs must go. now, given that > that would make wprefs largely unusable, maybe tracking him down would > be more beneficial to all :) Marco's license was changed to GPL in March 2000 and the Changelog clearly states that. It looks like that "NOT GPL" warning can be deleted. Furthermore, I think that the top-level file COPYING.OPL can also be deleted, as the reference to it comes from the Feb 1999 commit by Dan in WPrefs.app/README: "The graphical artwork included with WPrefs is NOT licensed through the GPL. It is licensed through the OpenContent License, instead. Please read the COPYING.OPL file for the detailed license." but as far as I can tell, that COPYING.OPL is there from the days when Marco's icons were using the OpenContent License. What do people think? -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [email protected].
