Licence violation for icons (lp:#1545350)
Original report created by Jonas Stein (news-g)
The icons in bitmaps_png/sources are not properly included in kicad.
The CREDITS file mentions "License: GPL or equivalent"
but GPL requires to name the license and the authors.
Which GPL is meant here? GPL-2?
KiCad should give the honor to the creators who made the original icons,
and who contributed to them (derived work).
The collection of links does not help to find out who made which icon under
which license.
Some links are even just search engines or forum posts.
For example the license of Oxygen Icons (GNU LGPL 3) can be found here:
https://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Oxygen/Licensing
We do not want to steal from open source and want to give proper
attribution.
Furthermore this is important for distributions and package maintainers
too.
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cat bitmaps_png/sources/CREDITS
ICONS:
The KiCad artwork for the 16px icons was made by Inigo Zuluaga for KiCad.
The work for the 26px icons and the 48px was done by Fabrizio Tappero,
fabrizio.tappero<at>gmail.com
License: GPL or equivalent
Some of these icons are derived from icons available from various sources:
http://openiconlibrary.sourceforge.net/
http://www.iconfinder.com
Primo Icon Set by Webdesigner Depot, http://www.webdesignerdepot.com
http://www.oxygen-icons.org/
http://www.webdesignerdepot.com
http://www.everaldo.com/
http://schollidesign.deviantart.com/
GEDA project, http://www.gpleda.org/index.html
Tomaz Solc, http://www2.eng.cam.ac.uk/~pcjc2/geda/icons/mime/
http://www.tablix.org/~avian/blog/archives/2007/04/tango_icons_for_geda/
http://www.icons-land.com/
Inksacep icons, http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/TangoifiedIcons
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/free-
cad/index.php?title=Artwork#Icons
The Gnome artwork, http://art.gnome.org/
Tago Icon Library, http://tango.freedesktop.org/Tango_Icon_Library
http://www.cliparts101.com
Thorsten Behrens,
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2011-February/007210.html
Konstantin,
http://electronix.ru/forum/index.php?showtopic=106246&view=findpost&p=1160223
Original tags: license