Bug#383155: Fwd: Re: Jimmac cursor theme on kde-look.org

[Loïc Minier]

        Hi Petr,

On Sun, Aug 20, 2006, Petr Kopecký wrote:
> it means that I have used cursors from 
> http://jimmac.musichall.cz/themes.php?skin=7 which is hopefuly under GPL 

 It's not directly under GPL.  All pages are "© 19942006 Jakub 'jimmac'
 Steiner <jimmac at ximian.com>. All Rights Reserved." and on some of the
 pages of the personal site of jimmac, big fat warnings appear that the
 icons are not in public domain.

> It means if original cursors were really under GPL then a package is clean 
> GPL. I hope I did not harm any license.

 The original cursors might be under GPL if they were published (perhaps
 in one distribution) as a GPLed tarball; for example, OpenSuse has an
 old gnome-icon-theme which floats on mirrors and was under GPL, and it
 carries /some/ of the cursors, just not all.

 Your work (modifying some of the images from the upstream site) is
 either GPL (as a derived work of a GPl work), or illegal, but let us
 hope for the best for now.

> But if I understand the problem correctly in Martin's industrial-cursor-theme 
> (which is the reason for this discussion) there are used symlink names from 
> my package. But for this it makes no sense to discuss licenses as information 
> about necessary cursor package structure is freely available for everyone 
> somewhere on the internet.

 No, Martin's "patch" adds some files from your tarball too, not only
 symlinks (in cursors/: crossed_circle, pirate, bd_double_arrow,
 fd_double_arrow, copy, hand).

 I'll contact jimmac and see whether either the tarball or the icons on
 his site are GPL, or whether they were published as GPL in some distro.

   Bye,
-- 
Loïc Minier <lool at dooz.org>