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mkornelix@gmail.com (Michael Cornelison)
Michael,
On Saturday, April 19, 2025 11:36:16 AM Mountain Standard Time Michael Cornelison wrote:
I am the author of dkopp.
I do not understand the legal issues involved, but I agree to change
the license, trusting that you know what you are doing.
I changed the license as follows:
Upstream-Name: dkopp
Upstream-Contact: Michael Cornelison <mkornelix@gmail.com>
Source: https://kornelix.net
All files copyright:
Copyright 2007-2024 Michael Cornelison <mkornelix@gmail.com>
All source program files license:
GNU General Public License 3.0 or later https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html
All other data and image files included in the source
distribution:
Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike 4.0
International https://creativecommons.org/licenses
There was an email earlier in the Debian conversation that suggested CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0, but I think that was a typo and they meant CC-BY-
SA-4.0. The difference is whether or not someone can use these images
for commercial purposes.
One of the purposes of Debian is to create a Linux distribution than
can be used and modified by individuals and businesses for both
commercial and non-commercial purposes. You can read a little about
this philosophy at:
https://wiki.debian.org/DebianFreeSoftwareGuidelines
Is the last paragraph even necessary?
If you own the copyright for all of these images and can change the
licensing, you can choose to license them all under the GPLv3+ just
like the code. In my personal opinion for projects where I am an
upstream developer, this is the preferred option for images that are
used as part of the GUI (which is my understanding about these images
from the conversation).
If you prefer a different license for the images for some reason, you
could license them under a suitable CC license, like the CC-BY-SA-4.0,
which is compatible with the GPL.
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html#CC0
I will make a new release available shortly.
I plan to include a small technical change.
Thank you for being so accommodating. We enjoy working with upstream developers to provide the best experience to our users.
--
Soren Stoutner
soren@debian.org
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