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Re: more licensing issues :(
From: |
Gregory John Casamento |
Subject: |
Re: more licensing issues :( |
Date: |
Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:40:30 -0700 (PDT) |
GNUstep has been moved back to GPLv2+ so those licensing issues should be taken
care of.
I will contact Andrew and see what can be done about this.
Thank you for pointing this out.
Later, GC
Gregory Casamento -- Principal Consultant - OLC, Inc
# GNUstep Chief Maintainer
----- Original Message ----
From: Hubert Chathi <address@hidden>
To: address@hidden
Sent: Friday, June 20, 2008 1:51:51 PM
Subject: more licensing issues :(
Debian Bug #487143 [1] was filed against gnustep-gui, which points out
that some of the included images are licensed in a way that prevents
modification, and also prevents use for anything other than developing
free OpenStep applications.
[1] http://bugs.debian.org/487143
This presents a problem since Debian requires that everything in the
distribution, including images, sounds, data files, documentation, be
freely modifiable, and so this could result in GNUstep being removed
from Debian.
I should note that this license only applies to certain images: namely
the images used for drawing various GUI controls such as checkboxes,
etc.
Is it possible to get these images relicensed?
Thanks
Hubert
P.S. The link listed in the license:
http://www.gnustep.org/UserSuite/UserSuite.html doesn't work.
P.P.S. There are additional reasons that I believe that the current
license is unreasonable. If anyone is interested, ask me.
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