[Tux4kids-tuxtype-dev] non free sounds & better backgrounds

Caroline Ford caroline.ford.work at googlemail.com
Wed Sep 16 12:19:45 UTC 2009


I'll check to see if any are 2.0+

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On 16 Sep 2009, at 10:38, Holger Levsen <holger at layer-acht.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Donnerstag, 10. September 2009, David Bruce wrote:
>> So, TuxType is now 100% compliant - hooray!
>
> Hooray indeed!! Caroline, many thanks for your work on this!
>
>> We should mention the licensing for the new sound files in
>> README_SOUNDS.txt.
>
> IIRC this has happenend already - I can't check atm as I'm writing  
> this
> offline and haven't updated my tuxtype svn checkout in a while...
>
> But, IIRC there were some files which were only released under a  
> Creative
> Commons 2.0 licence, which sadly ain't free according to the DFSG...  
> out of
> my head I'm not completly sure whether 2.5 is sufficient, 3.0 is  
> definitly
> fine (provided it's the right CC licence, ie allowing commercial
> redistribution..)
>
> Instead of removing those files now, I'd propose to ask the authors to
> relicence them under a 3.0 CC licence - IME most everybody is fine  
> with that,
> it just needs to be done ;-)
>
>
> regards,
>    Holger, who is really really happy about this and very confident  
> that we will
> sort out those pesky details :)
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