Re: Icons and GPL

Stefan Küng wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We've just received another request from a company
> (http://www.waterproof.fr) to user our overlay icons in their app to
> indicate the Subversion status.

It would be good to allow other apps to use them (regardless of the fact that I
don't like Waterproof since they turned PHPEdit from a GPL application into a
commercial product...)

> Since our icons are under the GPL as everything else, this won't be
> possible.
>
> I'd like to propose a license change for the icons. At least a change to
> the LGPL. That way any other application could use our icons, and
> provide a common "Subversion/TSVN" look-and-feel for the users.

But that would not include that they must be used only for Subversion status
indication and not for anything else as your text file draft does.

Rainer

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Received on Sat Jan 21 20:12:16 2006