CC-BY 2.0 licensed icons are not considered compatible with Debian
hosiet opened this issue · comments
I submitted wcm for inclusion of Debian, and got the following rejection response:
as the CC 2.0 license is not compatible with DFSG, please remove all icons under this license from the source tarball.
According to https://wiki.debian.org/DFSGLicenses#Creative_Commons_Attribution_1.0_Generic_.28CC_BY_1.0.29 , Debian does not consider CC 1.0 and 2.0 licenses to be compatible with Debian DFSG guidelines. If possible, please replace them with icons of a compatible license as listed on https://wiki.debian.org/DFSGLicenses (such as CC-BY 3.0 or CC-BY 4.0 licenses).
The following search shows all incompatible icons:
@soreau With some further review, I highly doubt whether #75 is legit. Obviously the Wayfire project is not the icon author; why could these icons be relicensed from CC-BY-2.0 to CC-BY-4.0 without explanation?
These icons appear to be the work of @jimmac , and I believe the changing of license should get a prior approval.
I am not the author of either of those.
Thanks for the clarification. The icon SVG files appear to be embedding your authorship information, and that may be an error.
@jimmac Thank for for chiming in.
@hosiet The icons in question were from compiz. They reportedly were originals from coz_ who has made most of the other icons for WCM. I spoke with them on IRC and they said these icons were theirs, and authorized the license update. I could have probably put some form of explanation in the commit message, but I did not. I'm not sure how you would like to proceed, but I'm open to whatever needs to be done to get past this hurdle.
@soreau Thanks for the info, I think these are good enough. I will update the documentation on my side accordingly.