[Tango-artists] Yet another Tango icons licensing question, with Artistic 2.0 this time

[Wolter Hellmund]

On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 17:34 +0200, Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado wrote:
> Hi all :)
> 
> I'm thinking about releasing a program under Artistic 2.0, and I'm
> considering distributing an icon with the program. Right now my best
> bets are:
> 
> - Creating an icon myself. I'm afraid it would be a very poor and ugly
>   looking icon...
> 
> - Not distribute the icon, just specify a path in the distributed
>   .desktop file and use some system icon (from gnome-theme, for example)
>   that has high chances of being there. Difficult unless I made a
>   package for some distro and fill a dependency with package gnome-theme
>   or something like that. Not very pretty...
> 
> - Distribute a gnome icon. Not possible since Artistic 2.0 is less
>   restrictive than GPL and the gnome-theme is GPL'd. As far as I know, I
>   cannot redistribute a GPL'd icon together with my application.
> 
> - Use a tango icon.
> 
> Let's assume I choose #4 and I use and distribute a tango icon. These
> icons are licensed under CC-BY-SA, and so I have two questions about it:
> 
> - Am I allowed to redistribute a ccbysa icon in my Artistic 2.0
>   application? For what I understand from both licenses, there shouldn't
>   be any problem, but I want to make sure.
> 
> - If I'm allowed to do the redistribution: how the authors want to be
>   credited (attributed, in CC lingo)? I would redistribute a modified
>   version of the icon.
> 
> Thanks a lot in advance, specially for such good-looking icons! :)
> 
> Raúl "DervishD" Núñez de Arenas Coronado

Hey Raúl, I'm not a professional tango icon maker, but if you give me
some specifications I can give you a hand with the job.

Wolter Hellmund