[Tango-artists] Terms Of Use: Who is "the author"?

[Linimair Simon]

On Fri 06-03-03 at 14:50 +0100, Rodney Dawes <dobey at novell.com> wrote:
> Also, I am not sure that you can include
> Cc-by-SA icons embedded in the binary as resources, which I presume
> you are asking as well, given that this is common practice. This is
> due to the derivitive works clause in the license. I am not a lawyer,
> but I believe that including the images as resources in a program
> would constitute a derivitive work. This at least seems to be the
> case for icons under the GPL, which has a similar derivitive works
> clause, requiring all derivitives to be GPL as well.

Thank you for your answer.

I haven't thought about the "derivative works clause" yet, so I am glad
you
mentioned the topic. My plan was to include some icons as resources,
but I think I will stay on the save side and won't use any tango artwork
yet. 

But if I can be sure, that it is perfectly legal to include the icons
embedded in binaries as resources, I will probably use them a lot in
further
versions and other applications.

Simon