Echo Cursors - naming spec, description, license, etc.

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Fri Mar 23 19:37:13 UTC 2007


Martin Sourada wrote:
> Nicu Buculei napsal(a):
>> Martin Sourada wrote:
>>> Maybe it would be the best. Yet I'll list here some alternatives:
>>>
>>> 2. GPL [3] - used by Bluecurve, primarily developers license, but
>>> probably
>>> usable for art as well.
>>> 3. LGPL [4] - that would allow commercial derivates
>> GPL also allow commercial derivatives (all the options allow commercial
>> derivatives), RHEL for example is a commercial derivative, it does not
>> allow *proprietary* derivatives.
>> You know, is not about the money but about the freedom.
>>
>> PS: and even LGPL does not allow proprietary derivatives, it allow to be
>> used in proprietary products.
>>
>> PPS: cc-by-sa is somewhat alike to GPL in not allowing proprietary
>> derivatives.
>>
> 
> Thanks for the clarifying. Any idea which one(s) of those would fit a cursor
> theme best?

GPL seems to be the popular choice. Note that the since every 
contributor involved has to sign the Fedora CLA we can relicense it 
without tracking down every contributor individually if there is a dire 
need later.

Rahul




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