gEDA-dev: New "geda" package for gEDA wide items?

[Peter Clifton]

On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 17:39 -0700, John Doty wrote:
> On Nov 9, 2007, at 4:33 PM, Ales Hvezda wrote:
> 
> > [snip]
> >> I'm making up a patch to install Tomaz's mimetype icons, and don't  
> >> know
> >> where best to put it.
> >
> > Are these the icons which are licensed under a GPL-incompatible  
> > license?
> > What's the status of that?
> 
> Isn't GPL a strange and ambiguous license for something that isn't  
> software?

Yes, but the CC-SA Attribution license is non-free according to Debian,
and GPL incompatible by the FSF (implied from googling).

I don't think the real issue is GPL incompatibility, as we don't "link"
our GPL code against the icons, but I appreciate the "non-free"
categorisation in Debian is a blocker. As far as I see, its the
requirement for attribution which is considered non-free, but IANAL.

Peter

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