Ticket #1564 (closed defect: fixed)

Opened 9 months ago

Last modified 9 months ago

license issue with FeltTip3 emoticons

Reported by: petere Assigned to:
Priority: normal Milestone: 1.3.5
Component: qt/kde gui Version: devel
Keywords: Cc:

Description

The FeltTip3 emoticon set is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License. This license is not compatible with the GPL used by the rest of Licq, so strictly speaking it may not be legal to distribute that combination.

Even if you are not worried about that, the CC by-nc license is not considered "free" in the usual Free Software/Open Source senses, so downstream distributors will likely not be able to ship Licq as is.

I suggest you try to get the emoticons relicensed or exclude them from the Licq distribution.

Change History

2007-10-17 04:08:45 changed by erijo

FeltTip?4 is released under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License. Is this acceptable?

2007-10-18 05:15:28 changed by erijo

  • status changed from new to closed.
  • resolution set to fixed.
  • milestone set to 1.3.5.

FeltTip3 was replaced by FeltTip4 in r5639.