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

[Thijs Kinkhorst]

> > 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.

I don't think you ever do with this file: clear.gif is of trivial
simplicity (16x16 empty image). You should not be worried about its
copyright, because there's nothing original in it, and thus not
copyrightable.


Thijs
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