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Message #04491
[Bug 1404763] Re: mudlet.svg has non-free license
** Changed in: mudlet
Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1404763
Title:
mudlet.svg has non-free license
Status in Mudlet:
Fix Released
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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