0.11 still has non-free icons #6367

issue luke-jr opened this issue on July 3, 2015

luke-jr commented at 12:21 AM on July 3, 2015: member

@jonasschnelli Poke.
Diapolo commented at 6:10 AM on July 3, 2015: none

You could perhaps help by listing which ones :).
luke-jr commented at 6:14 AM on July 3, 2015: member

assets-attribution.md still is unclear about which ones... :/
jonasschnelli commented at 6:22 AM on July 3, 2015: contributor

The list is there: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/doc/assets-attribution.md#assets-used. I have a look at this. First i try to get permissions to use the icons under the MIT license by contacting (ring up) Stephen Hutchings. If i don't succeed, i'll promise to adapt the icons by redrawing them.

luke-jr commented at 6:25 AM on July 3, 2015: member

I already contacted him (and all other contributors to typicons) 3 months ago, and got no answer from any of them. Better to not hold up 0.11, and just draw new ones (be sure they aren't inspired by typicons please; copyright doesn't care if you redraw!)

From: Luke Dashjr <luke@dashjr.org>
To: stephenhutchings <stephen@creativelicence.com.au>,
 Alexander Synaptic <alexander@synapticism.com>,
 Aleksey V Zapparov <ixti@member.fsf.org>,
 Vitaly Puzrin <vitaly@rcdesign.ru>,
 Richard Bailey <additive.inverse@gmail.com>
Subject: typicons licensing
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2015 11:00:53 +0000
Message-Id: <201504071100.56262.luke@dashjr.org>

Hi,

A contributor to Bitcoin Core has included modified versions of some of your 
typicons in his changes. However, for consistency/clarity the project would 
like to keep everything under a common MIT license:
    http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT

Would you be willing to allow these MIT license terms as an alternative to the 
CC BY SA license you presently offer for typicons? If not, please let me know 
that as well, so we can find replacements.

The specific images involved can be seen at:
    https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/commit/31aac02446472ec5bfc4676ab190ec9d37056503#diff-2f5955e1426db3870f0f22b667007379

For disclosure, I am also concerned that section 4(d) of the CC BY SA license 
is not in the spirit of free/open licensing, and would present problems should 
people producing derived works of Bitcoin Core wish to use the GPL or similar 
copyleft licenses.

Thanks,

Luke

luke-jr commented at 6:28 AM on July 3, 2015: member

@stephenhutchings @synapticism @additiveinverse @puzrin @ixti One last attempt to reach you (this time via GitHub)... please respond ASAP.
stephenhutchings commented at 6:35 AM on July 3, 2015: none

Hi Luke, happy for these to be distributed under the terms of the MIT licence. Let me know if you need anything further from me.
luke-jr commented at 6:36 AM on July 3, 2015: member

Pleasant surprise, thanks @stephenhutchings !
jonasschnelli commented at 6:37 AM on July 3, 2015: contributor

Nice! Many thanks @stephenhutchings.
laanwj commented at 7:39 AM on July 3, 2015: member

Many thanks @stephenhutchings . License change has been merged per #6369.
laanwj closed this on Jul 3, 2015
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#6369 assets-attribution: Update typicons to MIT license