[Pkg-tikiwiki-devel] Re: Bug#377943: tikiwiki: distributing "Houndtime" infringes copyright and violates policy 2.2.1

[mose]

le Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 03:49:34PM +0200 par Marcus Better :
> mose wrote:
> > The readme included in the zip says : 
> > "This font was made by The Font Farm, it's free to use."
> 
> This is very incomplete. It doesn't say what "free" means (free as beer,
> but perhaps not free to distribute?), and doesn't specify "use". I can
> imagine that "use" would not normally include "redistribute", and anyway
> it would be better to know for sure.
> 
> Please ask him to place it under a proper free license (preferably one
> of the standard licenses such as BSD, LGPL or whatever). It's sufficient
> if he places the license statement on the download page, if he doesn't
> want to make a new zip file.
> 
> > - tikiwiki developers made a lot of efforts to enforce LGPL compatibility 
> > of all code included in first versions of Tikiwiki.
> 
> Good. We should still collect all the copyright notices (with author and
> year) and license statements into debian/copyright. This will take some
> time, but on the other hand it's not considered a RC bug to leave it out
> for the time being (very few packages have 100% complete copyright
> information in there).
> 
> > For example, who can say who is the copyright holder for img/icons/clear.gif and what are its
> > conditions of use ?
> 
> Well, the one who committed it to CVS should definitely have checked,
> and documented, if an icon is covered by copyright. If someone just took
> a bunch of icons off the web and stuffed them in the CVS without
> checking copyright, then we may have a problem.

- the one that committed all those icons was the original author of
tikiwiki, Luis Argerich, and indeed he didn't care much about
copyright and licences. We had a whole year of cleaning due to that.
The icons are the last part that we didn't cleanout, because it's like
a titan work. But well, maybe it's actually required. I guess I'll
take some time to rationalize icons use (actually that's a while 
I want to burn all gifs, event if patent on lzh is over now, afaik).


cheers,
mose