GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 646781
Fresh Flower is not Free (and other possible license issues?)
Last modified: 2012-10-29 16:35:46 UTC
Fresh Flower has been in the gnome-backgrounds tarball for some time but it was just noted yesterday it is apparently cc by-nc (as noted on <http://art.gnome.org/backgrounds/nature/1235>). Also license information has been added to the AUTHORS file but only for the new files, other previous images may have the same problem as Fresh Flower. And I don't know if it's required, but gnome-icon-themes has a COPYING_CCBYSA3 with a small paragraph indicating the reader how to get the full license text.
As a sidenote, http://blogs.gnome.org/theming/2008/08/27/new-backgrounds-for-gnome-224/ states that "All the backgrounds are released under the GNU GPL".
Removing blocker status, as this is apparently fine (GPL). Needs to be confirmed, though.
Fresh Flower was removed from gnome-backgrounds in commit 92d440d, which was available in GNOME 3.6.