[haiku] Re: Drupal Template

Hi,

On 2010-01-03 at 03:16:16 [+0100], François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I do have a question, though, about the Haiku icons used in the theme. 
> > What is the license of these icons (could not find any info anywhere), 
> > and is it OK to include them in the theme package?
> 
> Unlike the vectorized BeOS SVG ones which were under GPL IIRC, the ones 
> we use are in svn, and as part of the Haiku sources shall be under the 
> default Haiku licence (MIT) unless otherwise noted I suppose...

Yes, since the MIT license is "compatible" with the GPL from the POV of the 
GPL, the icons can be distributed in a GPL package. This does not affect 
the fact that the same icons are also available under MIT license directly 
from the Haiku repository. In theory, it's possible to give the icons in 
the theme package an explicit license (MIT) which differs from the license 
of the rest of the files, but I don't think it's worth the trouble. Maybe 
place a note where the icons originally come from, but it's probably not 
even worthwhile to do even that.

On a related note, during the first discussion about the "Haiku distro 
guidelines" and trademark policy, we decided that the icons and other 
artwork that is not the logo would not be included in any such 
restrictions. The icons shall be openly usable under the same conditions as 
the source code. Anything else would pose a serious barrier to creating 
derivative works of the Haiku code base.

Best regards,
-Stephan

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