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[Craig Small <1404763@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

I finally got some experimental mudlet 3.0 compiled and have a Debian
package. lintian then complained

E: mudlet source: license-problem-cc-by-nc-sa mudlet.svg

And indeed that is the license of this file and (I assume) the png

grep -- -nc mudlet.svg
           rdf:resource="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/"; />
         rdf:about="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/";>

The nc part of the license means non-commerical use. That means anything
from you cannot sell the icon to you cannot sell mudlet or even sell a
CD with some packages that also includes mudlet. For Debian this would
technically mean the entire package needs to move to non-free.

 I don't think that was the intention of the author of that file. It
basically makes it incompatible (in a distribution sense, you're not
linking to it) to the rest of the GPL-2+ source code of mudlet itself.

In the interim I'll be removing the icon so that mudlet can go into the
main distribution, but it would be nice to get some clarity on what the
license should be.  This problem probably also affects mudlet 2 as well.

** Affects: mudlet
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  mudlet.svg has non-free license

Status in Mudlet the MUD client:
  New

Bug description:
  I finally got some experimental mudlet 3.0 compiled and have a Debian
  package. lintian then complained

  E: mudlet source: license-problem-cc-by-nc-sa mudlet.svg

  And indeed that is the license of this file and (I assume) the png

  grep -- -nc mudlet.svg
             rdf:resource="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/"; />
           rdf:about="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/";>

  The nc part of the license means non-commerical use. That means
  anything from you cannot sell the icon to you cannot sell mudlet or
  even sell a CD with some packages that also includes mudlet. For
  Debian this would technically mean the entire package needs to move to
  non-free.

   I don't think that was the intention of the author of that file. It
  basically makes it incompatible (in a distribution sense, you're not
  linking to it) to the rest of the GPL-2+ source code of mudlet itself.

  In the interim I'll be removing the icon so that mudlet can go into
  the main distribution, but it would be nice to get some clarity on
  what the license should be.  This problem probably also affects mudlet
  2 as well.

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