Bug#383155: Fwd: Re: Jimmac cursor theme on kde-look.org
Loïc Minier
lool at dooz.org
Sun Aug 20 19:22:16 UTC 2006
Hi Petr,
On Sun, Aug 20, 2006, Petr Kopecký wrote:
> it means that I have used cursors from
> http://jimmac.musichall.cz/themes.php?skin=7 which is hopefuly under GPL
It's not directly under GPL. All pages are "© 19942006 Jakub 'jimmac'
Steiner <jimmac at ximian.com>. All Rights Reserved." and on some of the
pages of the personal site of jimmac, big fat warnings appear that the
icons are not in public domain.
> It means if original cursors were really under GPL then a package is clean
> GPL. I hope I did not harm any license.
The original cursors might be under GPL if they were published (perhaps
in one distribution) as a GPLed tarball; for example, OpenSuse has an
old gnome-icon-theme which floats on mirrors and was under GPL, and it
carries /some/ of the cursors, just not all.
Your work (modifying some of the images from the upstream site) is
either GPL (as a derived work of a GPl work), or illegal, but let us
hope for the best for now.
> But if I understand the problem correctly in Martin's industrial-cursor-theme
> (which is the reason for this discussion) there are used symlink names from
> my package. But for this it makes no sense to discuss licenses as information
> about necessary cursor package structure is freely available for everyone
> somewhere on the internet.
No, Martin's "patch" adds some files from your tarball too, not only
symlinks (in cursors/: crossed_circle, pirate, bd_double_arrow,
fd_double_arrow, copy, hand).
I'll contact jimmac and see whether either the tarball or the icons on
his site are GPL, or whether they were published as GPL in some distro.
Bye,
--
Loïc Minier <lool at dooz.org>
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