[Fwd: [Tango-artists] Re: Tango icons licensing]

[Nicu Buculei]

Máirín Duffy wrote:
> FYI, thought this was interesting.

May I ask which license is recommended by FSF for artwork? Or which 
licenses for artwork are compatible with the GPL?

We have heard from a long time from CreativeCommons supporters that GPL 
is not a good license for artwork, being by design a license for code 
not for art (and this sound reasonable, we can't really talk about the 
source code of a PNG or OGG).


> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [Tango-artists] Re: Tango icons licensing
> 
> I can now give an answer to my own question (quoted below), just in
> case it could be of interest here. I sent an e-mail to the FSF as well
> as this mailing list, and have now received an answer confirming that
> artwork is no different from libraries in relation to the GPL. Thus,
> it is not possible for a GPL application to be distributed with
> artwork licensed (only) under this Creative Commons license. That
> settles the matter for my part - I have to look for icons elsewhere.

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