Bug 19351

Summary:	update the license to creative commons by-sa 3.0
Product:	tango	Reporter:	Torsten Werner <mail.twerner>
Component:	icon theme	Assignee:	Jakub Steiner <jimmac>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	medium
Version:	CVS
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description Torsten Werner 2008-12-31 10:45:25 UTC

Hi,

would it be possible to update the license to version 3.0 because version 2.5 has some issues? Some projects (like Debian) do not accept CC 2.5 as a free license and hence cannot use the tango icons.

Cheers,
Torsten

Comment 1 Jakub Steiner 2009-01-01 11:52:03 UTC

The effort to relicense the icon theme under CC-BY-SA 3.0 ended up in relicensing all the work by Novell under Public Domain [1]. Some other authors also agreed to relicense their contributions that way. Unfortunately this is not everybody. While I want to focus on the tango-icon-library [2], Andreas Nilsson planned to release a tarball of all the relicensed content, but it hasn't happened yet.

[1] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/tango-artists/2008-July/001821.html
[2] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/tango-artists/2008-October/001910.html

Comment 2 Torsten Werner 2009-03-04 13:42:44 UTC

Sorry for reopening this bug but cc by sa 2.5 allows redistribution under the terms of a later version in section 4 part 2:

       2. You may distribute, publicly display, publicly perform, or
       publicly digitally perform a Derivative Work only under the
       terms of this License, a later version of this License with
       the same License Elements as this License, or a Creative Commons
       iCommons license that contains the same License Elements as this
       License (e.g. Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 Japan).

That is why I renew my request to relicense tango.

Comment 3 Jakub Steiner 2009-03-04 14:35:46 UTC

The tango-icon-theme has been released under public domain. You can now relicense it whatever you want. Just grab the latest release.

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