[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#763061: Licensing issue on images files

[Clément Hermann (nodens)]

Package: network-manager-gnome
Version: 0.9.10.0-2
Severity: important

Hi,

while preparing my packaging of Tails' OpenPGP Applet (ITP #756404), it was
pointed to me that there were issues on images files shipped with it : they
where licensed using CC-BY-SA 2.0, which is not DFSG-compliant. They seemed
indeed derived from icons using an old tango theme, which were indeed licensed
CC-BY-SA 2.0 at the time.

I saw that on my Sid system, several packages have the same issue :

~$ rgrep -rl 'by-sa/2\.0' /usr/share/icons/*/scalable |xargs dlocate --package-only
gitg
network-manager-gnome
soundconverter
thunar-volman
xfburn
xfce4-battery-plugin
xfce4-fsguard-plugin
xfce4-power-manager-data

There may be more, since it only reports the packages I have installed.
It doesn't seem to be dual-licensing, judging from the content of the svg files
involved.

So, I asked on debian-devel but received very few responses, mostly
inconclusives or saying we should allow CC-BY-SA 2.0 in debian [1] [2]

This is not an issue in the package I work on anymore, since I could remake the
icons and include them upstream. However, I think it's best to track this issue
and maybe clarify once and for all what to do with CC-BY-SA 2.0 images.

Currently, I see the following options : 
- convincing upstream to relicense the files using a later (>= 3.0) version of the license, which, as I found out, can be difficult
- removing or replacing the files
- decide that CC-BY-SA 2.0 is OK after all.

Cheers,

[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2014/08/msg00073.html
[2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2014/09/msg00725.html

-- 
Clement Hermann (nodens)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.16-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages network-manager-gnome depends on:
ii  dbus-x11                                     1.8.8-1
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.20.0-2
ii  gconf-service                                3.2.6-3
ii  gnome-icon-theme                             3.12.0-1
ii  libc6                                        2.19-11
ii  libcairo2                                    1.12.16-5
ii  libdbus-1-3                                  1.8.8-1
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2                             0.102-1
ii  libgconf-2-4                                 3.2.6-3
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0                           2.30.8-1
ii  libglib2.0-0                                 2.40.0-5
ii  libgnome-keyring0                            3.12.0-1
ii  libgtk-3-0                                   3.12.2-3+b1
ii  libmm-glib0                                  1.2.0-1
ii  libnm-glib-vpn1                              0.9.10.0-2
ii  libnm-glib4                                  0.9.10.0-2
ii  libnm-gtk0                                   0.9.10.0-2
ii  libnm-util2                                  0.9.10.0-2
ii  libnotify4                                   0.7.6-2
ii  libpango-1.0-0                               1.36.7-1
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0                          1.36.7-1
ii  libsecret-1-0                                0.18-1
ii  network-manager                              0.9.10.0-2
ii  policykit-1-gnome                            0.105-2

Versions of packages network-manager-gnome recommends:
ii  gnome-keyring                        3.12.2-1
ii  iso-codes                            3.56-1
ii  mobile-broadband-provider-info       20140317-1
ii  notification-daemon                  0.7.6-1
ii  xfce4-notifyd [notification-daemon]  0.2.4-3

Versions of packages network-manager-gnome suggests:
pn  network-manager-openconnect-gnome  <none>
ii  network-manager-openvpn-gnome      0.9.10.0-1
pn  network-manager-pptp-gnome         <none>
pn  network-manager-vpnc-gnome         <none>

-- no debconf information