[pkg-fso-maint] Bug#600374: mokomaze: uses non-free, possibly non-distributable icons

Paul Wise pabs at debian.org
Mon Nov 15 00:11:45 UTC 2010


On Sun, 2010-11-14 at 17:39 -0600, Steve M. Robbins wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 11:18:27PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> 
> > I've forwarded this bug upstream so hopefully they will apply my patches
> > and replace these icons with something DSFG-free.
> 
> Paul, since you have made patches, could you upload a fixed version
> to Debian and resolve this RC bug?

I should clarify. The patches I wrote are for other issues (mostly
autotools cleanup). When I sent the patches upstream I also informed the
maintainer about the non-free icons. I quote from our email exchange:

On Sat, 2010-10-16 at 23:26 +0800, Paul Wise wrote:

> In addition it appears that the "Blue Velvet" icons you are using are
> non-free anyway and you and I do not have permission to modify them or
> distribute them on CD or anywhere else not on the Internet:
> 
> http://bugs.debian.org/600374
> http://dryicons.com/terms/free/

On Sat, 2010-10-16 at 20:43 +0400, Anton Olkhovik wrote:

> Yes, they are needed to be replaced, but I have no skill in drawing
> and I'm not familiar with any artist that will draw for free. Maybe
> some suitable icons can be found within KDE/Gnome themes.

Anton, did you make any progress in finding some replacements?

-- 
bye,
pabs

http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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