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On Tuesday, April 22, 2025 1:31:04 PM Mountain Standard Time Michael Cornelison wrote:

The new release dkopp-8.2 now uses icons from the website
https://uxwing.com
which I also customized.
These icons are free to use without attribution, according to the
website.

The license on this website is not DFSG-free.

https://uxwing.com/license/

For example:

- Reselling, *redistributing*, sublicensing, claiming credit, or
ownership of any of the icons is strictly prohibited.

Debian needs to be able to redistribute the icons.

- *Do not use* this material for spam websites, illegal business,
illegal activities, and hate/crime.

- *Do not use* in your company logo or trademarks.

- *Do not use* to training machine learning or artificial intelligence systems.

- *Do not use* in non-fungible tokens (NFTs).

One of the fundamental freedoms Debian espouses it that anyone can use
the software for any purpose, including purposes you don’t like.

Quoting from the Debian Free Software Guidelines:

"The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program
in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the
program from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic research."

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Soren Stoutner
soren@debian.org
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XPost: linux.debian.legal

On Tue, 22 Apr 2025 14:11:12 -0700 Soren Stoutner wrote:

On Tuesday, April 22, 2025 1:31:04 PM Mountain Standard Time Michael Cornelison wrote:

The new release dkopp-8.2 now uses icons from the website
https://uxwing.com
which I also customized.
These icons are free to use without attribution, according to the
website.

The license on this website is not DFSG-free.

https://uxwing.com/license/

[...]

I agree that these icons do not meet the DFSG.
Even worse than that, their redistribution could be considered as
illegal, as Soren has pointed out.


Michael, please search for DFSG-free icons, if you cannot (or don't
want to) create icons by yourself.

Some collections of clipart/images which are DFGS-free, where you may
perhaps find what you need:

* [Open Clip Art] which are under the [CC0] public domain dedication

[Open Clip Art]: <https://openclipart.org/>
[CC0]: <https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode.txt>

* [publicdomainvectors] which are also under the [CC0] public domain
dedication

[publicdomainvectors]: <https://publicdomainvectors.org/>


Once you found DFSG-free icons, please document where they come from
and which is their license (or public domain dedication) in the
'copyright' file.

I hope this helps.
Bye!


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