gkrellm-themes orphaned

Gilboa Davara gilboad at gmail.com
Sun Sep 16 11:57:47 UTC 2007


On Sun, 2007-09-16 at 15:22 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Gilboa Davara wrote:
> 
> > Thanks for scaring the bejesus out of me.
> > What's the going practice when license is unknown?
> 
> Ideally we should clarify licensing information asap or stop distribution.
> 
> > ... Plus, can I take my sweet time checking it or is it required by
> > F8-release?
> 
> We would be in trouble even today if any authors questions us on 
> distributing their content without any written rights to do so. 
> Considering the amount of work required to clarify such licensing 
> details across so many themes, you should probably let the package get 
> orphaned and import it later when the licensing details are clarified 
> which you might consider doing along with other distribution maintainers 
> or strip down the package immediately to themes with clear licenses and 
> add more continuously when you get the licenses sorted out.
> 
> Rahul

OK.

Did anyone contact gkrellm.org?

- Gilboa




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