From: Matthew G. <mat...@gm...> - 2009-03-24 00:20:24
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On Monday 23 March 2009, Bogdan Marinov wrote: > On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 10:18 PM, Mike Storm <oop...@gm...> wrote: > > On 3/23/09, Diego Marcos Segura <die...@gm...> wrote: > >> I was considering buying the licence but we would have problems > >> distributing them under the current licence of stellarium. > > > > Actually, the "Free" license specifically allows use in open source > > projects. But then the "What you CAN NOT DO" section prohibits > > distribution to a third party. So I'm confused. > > Another person that doesn't really know what FOSS means, maybe? :) > I've started to notice more and more of them recently. The most... > memorable case was a large corporation that licensed a gallery of > pictures under CC-BY, the most non-restrictive of the Creative Commons > licenses, and then prohibited modifying the images in the next > sentence. :) > > Bogdan If they appear at all confused about their licensing, I vote to stay away from them. There are lots of "properly" free icon sets out there like the Tango project. I suggest we look there if we want to place icons. Having said that, I really really like the icons we have now. The only problem I have is that it is very hard for me to create new ones which look half as good, and so whatever I produce stands out by looking like it was created by a graphics noob... which is true. Matthew |