[Tango-artists] CC-SA/GPL Dual Licensing

[Chris Van Patten]

Hello,

my name is Chris Van Patten, and I'm a volunteer with the Synfig project.
Synfig is a 2D animation program, and is available on Windows, Linux and
(soon) OS X.  Details on Synfig can be found at <http://synfig.com>.

I'm interested in using Tango icons for the default icons with Synfig.
Right now, our icon library is stylistically very disjointed, and not very
appealing to the eye.  Tango would help us solve this problem, and further
we would be helping users who have used Tango-ized applications in the past
transition into Synfig more easily.

Unfortunately, as I know you all are aware, Tango icons (at least the
default library) is licensed under the CC-SA license.  I'm a huge fan of
Creative Commons, I use it for my own films.  However Synfig is GPL licensed
and thus we cannot use the default library.

Is there any chance of seeing the Tango icons dual-licensed?  Obviously the
most obvious dual-license would be CC-SA and GPL, but I've seen LGPL
suggested as a better alternative.

I'm really eager to be able to utilize Tango icons and I'm sure others are
as well... hopefully we can see some progress so it is easier to include
these icons without violating any licenses!

Chris Van Patten
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