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Arturo Torres Sánchez approved relicensing of his work under CC BY 3.0.


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From: Arturo Torres Sánchez <r2d2.art2005@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 4:40 PM
Subject: Re: Request for relicensing of your work in Nuvola Player project
To: Jiří Janoušek <janousek.jiri@xxxxxxxxx>


Of course, I have no problem with this. I will change the license to CC BY 3.0


On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 8:45 AM, Jiří Janoušek <janousek.jiri@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Dear copyright holder of Nuvola Player icons,
>
> core of Nuvola Player will be released under 2-Clause BSD license [1]
> since the next stable releases (1.1 and 2.0), so Nuvola Player will
> not be allowed to use your artwork (see bellow) licensed under GNU GPL
> 3.0 [2]. Could you please relicense your artwork under CC BY 3.0 [3]
> (preferred, license of Alexander King's artwork your icons are derived
> from) or CC BY-SA 3.0 [4] so that Nuvola Player could continue to use
> your icons?
>
> [1] http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~fenryxo/nuvola-player/trunk/view/388/licenses/BSD-2-Clause.txt
> [2] http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0-standalone.html
> [3] http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
> [4] http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
>
> Repository: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~fenryxo/nuvola-player/trunk/files
> Files:      graphics/nuvola-player.*.svg
> Copyright:  2011 Arturo Torres Sánchez <arturo.ilhuitemoc@xxxxxxxxx>
>             2011 Alexander King
>             2011 Jiří Janoušek <janousek.jiri@xxxxxxxxx>
> License:    GNU GPL 3.0+
>
> Since your icons are great and Nuvola Player users are used to them, I
> believe removal of these icons would be a big loss for the project. I
> think Creative Commons licenses are more suitable for artwork than GNU
> GPL, because GNU GPL was primarily created for software and it is
> still ambiguous how its terms apply to artwork.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Jiří Janoušek




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--Arturo Torres Sánchez