[Fwd: [Tango-artists] Re: Tango icons licensing]

Dimitris Glezos dimitris at glezos.com
Thu Jul 27 15:49:09 UTC 2006


O/H Steven Garrity έγραψε:
> Nicu Buculei wrote:
>> May I ask which license is recommended by FSF for artwork? Or which
>> licenses for artwork are compatible with the GPL?
>>
>> We have heard from a long time from CreativeCommons supporters that
>> GPL is not a good license for artwork, being by design a license for
>> code not for art (and this sound reasonable, we can't really talk
>> about the source code of a PNG or OGG).
> 
> 
> The next version of the CC licenses should be released soon (within a
> month, I heard at the Desktop Developers Conference last week). I
> understand the updates are intended to address some of these
> incompatibilities with GPL.

I'm sure the Tango people would like their work to be compatible with
the GPL. Probably you should ask their position about this, since it
would be great if we could include it in GPL applications in Fedora.

-dim


> 
> That said, I don't really know what I'm talking about.
> 
> Cheers,
> Steven Garrity
> 
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