GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 757643
shotwell-common: discrepancy in image metadata (license)
Last modified: 2016-04-25 19:15:35 UTC
Hello, I forward this bug from Debian[1]: [quote] Dear Maintainer, I've noticed that image /usr/share/shotwell/icons/rejected.svg have inconsistent licensing metadata: LicenseProhibits: http://creativecommons.org/ns#CommercialUse WorkLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ It is a free license and "LicenseProhibits" is probably left by accident after changing license in Inkscape (see Document_Properties-->License). However it looks like additional restriction on top of CC-BY-SA-3.0 or as an attempt to use non-free CC-BY-NC-SA-3.0 (assuming incorrect URL of the license). Please investigate. [/quote] CU Jörg
Hi, sorry for the missing link: :-( [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=800902
Hi, please can someone give a short note about the status of this bug? Thanks CU Jörg
I'll investigate
The icon is from the Breath Icon Theme [1], the licensing is also present in the original file, added in revision 109. Before that, the entry was missing. I'm trying to contact its authors regarding this, but as that was about 7 years ago, I don't have any hope [1] http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=105873 [2] https://code.launchpad.net/~breathe-dev/breathe-icon-set/trunk
According to one of the maintainers it's a mistake. I'm waiting for confirmation to put the answer here and what to do with the image.
Quoting one of the maintiners from the mail: "It has been quite awhile, but if NC language slipped into the licensing somehow, it would have to have been a mistake. The goal of the project was always for the theme to be included in Ubuntu, adding the NC clause to the license would have made it unacceptable in either Ubuntu main or universe.The license, as expressed in both the COPYING file and debian/copyright was CC-BY-SA-3.0."
Created attachment 326712 [details] [review] data: Fix contradicting icon license The icon comes from the Breathe icon theme where it was supposed to be cc-by-sa. Apparently there was some relicensing from cc-by-nc-sa but the clause was not removed. Signed-off-by: Jens Georg <mail@jensge.org>
Attachment 326712 [details] pushed as b33cacf - data: Fix contradicting icon license