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

[Steven Garrity]

Nicu Buculei wrote:
> 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).


The next version of the CC licenses should be released soon (within a 
month, I heard at the Desktop Developers Conference last week). I 
understand the updates are intended to address some of these 
incompatibilities with GPL.

That said, I don't really know what I'm talking about.

Cheers,
Steven Garrity