<a href="http://jimmac.musichall.cz/i.php?i=git2">http://jimmac.musichall.cz/i.php?i=git2</a><br><br>Jakub pointed this out to me. It follows the Tango Guidelines, yet is GPL. Perhaps it would be the most suitable replacement.
<br><br>Someone could have suggested this already, sorry if I missed it. :)<br><br>Trae<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/30/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Laura Scott</b> <<a href="mailto:laura@pingv.com">laura@pingv.com
</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I'm wondering if we're not trying to apply mileage standards to<br>bicycles. As far as I know, the GPL is about software, not about images.
<br><br>> The licenses for most software are designed to take away your<br>> freedom to share and change it. By contrast, the GNU General Public<br>> License is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change
<br>> free software--to make sure the software is free for all its users.<br>> This General Public License applies to most of the Free Software<br>> Foundation's software and to any other program whose authors commit
<br>> to using it. (Some other Free Software Foundation software is<br>> covered by the GNU Lesser General Public License instead.) You can<br>> apply it to your programs, too.<br><br>I may be wrong, but don't believe you can GPL an image any more than
<br>you can copyright a lawn. We're talking about different kinds of<br>licensing, different kinds of works. An image isn't software. The<br>image format could be considered software, so we could require that<br>images not be in any proprietary format, such as PSD or ia. But that
<br>doesn't get to the creative property aspects.<br><br>I humbly suggest focusing on the goal, and not on the means. GPL<br>itself is not manna. Its values are what we seek, no?<br><br>The closest thing I can find is the Creative Commons Share Alike
<br>license. However, I cannot seem to find it anywhere on their website.<br>All of their pre-configured licenses for images require attribution,<br>which defeats the stated goals here. But Share Alike (with the arrow-<br>
circle icon) seems to capture exactly what we're after:<br><br>> Share Alike. You allow others to distribute derivative works only<br>> under a license identical to the license that governs your work.<br><br><a href="http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses">
http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses</a><br><br>The other approach would be to require a Public Domain Dedication of<br>the image elements. <a href="http://creativecommons.org/license/">http://creativecommons.org/license/
</a><br>publicdomain-2 (I note that CC states this might not be enforceable<br>outside of the US.)<br><br>Laura<br><br><br><br><br><br>On May 30, 2006, at 2:22 PM, Bčr Kessels wrote:<br><br>> Summary so far:It has been decided we cannot use tango. So let us move
<br>> forward.<br>><br>> We should find an alternaive that does allow us to go for GPL.<br>><br>> Here are some possibilities:<br>><br>> * BlueSphere: <a href="http://svgicons.sourceforge.net/">http://svgicons.sourceforge.net/
</a> -- SVG, so<br>> resizeable<br>> without distortion. BSD licence. See also<br>> <a href="http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=4276">http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=4276
</a><br>> * Shiira: <a href="http://hmdt-web.net/shiira/icon-e.html">http://hmdt-web.net/shiira/icon-e.html</a> -- several good<br>> options imho.<br>> * idesk: <a href="http://idesk.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page">
http://idesk.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page</a><br>> (not<br>> sure if this has icons or is just a desktop tool)<br>> * FreeIcons: <a href="http://realopen.org/projects/fics/">http://realopen.org/projects/fics/
</a><br>> * Marbles? <a href="http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php">http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php</a>?<br>> content=1581 --<br>> not sure about licence<br>> * XOOPS icons: <a href="http://www.nongnu.org/matt-xoops/">
http://www.nongnu.org/matt-xoops/</a><br>> * <a href="http://themes.freshmeat.net/projects/aquafusion/">http://themes.freshmeat.net/projects/aquafusion/</a><br>><br>> And <a href="http://www.maxpower.ca/free-icons/2006/03/05/">
http://www.maxpower.ca/free-icons/2006/03/05/</a><br>><br>> Lets pick one, or go for the best option: volunteer to design a<br>> Drupal-specific set! :)<br>><br>> Bčr<br>> --<br>> [ End user Drupal services and hosting |
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