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[Seth Hillbrand <seth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The correct license is CC-BY-SA.  We'll update the SVG to the correct
license.

Seth

On Fri, Apr 2, 2021, 8:05 AM Carsten Schoenert <c.schoenert@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> while working on a current snapshot (42c6af4) of the KiCad development
> tree and adjusting the build environment for Debian unstable I'm facing
> the output of the Lintian QS tool about the usage of the non-free
> Creative Commons Non-Commercial Share-Alike (CC-NC-SA) license for some
> source files. The used license is considered as non-free within Debian.
>
> > $ grep -r by-nc-sa bitmaps_png/sources/
> > bitmaps_png/sources/dark/gbr_select_mode2.svg:           rdf:resource="
> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/"; />
> > bitmaps_png/sources/dark/gbr_select_mode2.svg:         rdf:about="
> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/";>
> > bitmaps_png/sources/dark/bug.svg:           rdf:resource="
> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/"; />
> > bitmaps_png/sources/dark/bug.svg:         rdf:about="
> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/";>
> > bitmaps_png/sources/light/gbr_select_mode2.svg:           rdf:resource="
> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/"; />
> > bitmaps_png/sources/light/gbr_select_mode2.svg:         rdf:about="
> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/";>
> > bitmaps_png/sources/light/bug.svg:           rdf:resource="
> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/"; />
> > bitmaps_png/sources/light/bug.svg:         rdf:about="
> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/";>
>
> The CREDIT file in the same folder is saying something different.
>
> > $ cat bitmaps_png/sources/CREDITS
> > ICONS:
> >
> > Original KiCad Icon work by Inigo Zuluaga and Fabrizio Tappero among
> others
> >
> > KiCad icons were redesigned in 2020 by Aleksandr Zyrianov
> >
> > License: CC-BY-SA 4.0
>
> No matter how the correct situation is, I see here a mismatch between
> the source license and the later used license. I'm not sure if the
> source license is by-nc-sa-4.0 (CC-NC-SA) then the derived work can be
> licensed as CC-BY-SA.
>
> If the source files with the critical license aren't used for building
> the KiCad package I can drop them while importing the source into the
> Debian working tree. The KiCad package is already using the 'dfsg'
> suffix due other files we need to exclude.
>
> So, how is the correct license situation for the SVG files in questions?
> And, are these files critical for building the KiCad package?
>
> --
> Regards
> Carsten
>
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