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Icons license

Open licaon-kter opened this issue 3 years ago • 6 comments

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Icons generated with the Android Material Icon Generator are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/).

But looking at https://spdx.org/licenses/ this CC-BY-NC-3.0 is neither FSF Free/Libre nor OSI approved.

@Bubu @eighthave Thoughts? This needs Antifeatures: NonFreeAssets I guess

licaon-kter avatar Jul 27 '20 09:07 licaon-kter

This needs Antifeatures: NonFreeAssets I guess

Sounds right!

Bubu avatar Jul 27 '20 09:07 Bubu

https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/merge_requests/7156

licaon-kter avatar Jul 27 '20 11:07 licaon-kter

@Bubu @eighthave @licaon-kter I need some more info here. "NonFreeAssets" is a real strange label to put on a license that explicitly states it's free to use non-commercially in all forms.

It's also quite rude to not contact me before making merge requests, as I have had no chance to resolve this yet. I don't think handling things like this would do the F-Droid repository, nor its community any good.

I'd rather recreate the icon than have an - imho bureaucracy-nonsense - anti-feature label on the app.

ltguillaume avatar Jul 27 '20 11:07 ltguillaume

We can always remove that, also this has been an issue for how long? :)

‘NonFreeAssets’ - the application contains and makes use of Non-Free assets. The most common case is apps using artwork - images, sounds, music, etc - under a non-commercial license.

The OP explains the reason, right?

licaon-kter avatar Jul 27 '20 12:07 licaon-kter

The CC-BY-NC licenses are non-free, see i.e. here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons_NonCommercial_license

CC BY-NC license is considered non-free

explicitly states it's free to use non-commercially in all forms.

It explicitly forbids commercial redistribution thus taking away the software freedoms as defined by the FSF. There's really nothing strange about this.

Bubu avatar Jul 27 '20 12:07 Bubu

@ltGuillaume Also, like the earlier DuckDuckGo Tracking "scandal" we can mark per version antifeatures, so once you fix this, older ones will have it but from now on...not.

licaon-kter avatar Jul 27 '20 12:07 licaon-kter